Word: sorrowful
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...every case is successful. Allen relates with sorrow the tale of a teenage boy who had to take two jobs to help his linguistically-impaired parents pay living expenses...
...instant book, once the domain of hack publishers like Dove Books and disreputable semi-authors like Rosa Lopez, is taken to a new level of respectability with In the Name of Sorrow and Hope. Despite the rapidity of its printing (the epilogue is dated March 1996, and it was published on April 8) and its pamphlet length (180 undersized pages), the occasion on which this book seeks to capitalize is considerably more serious than the O.J. trial: it is the memoir of Yitzhak Rabin's granddaughter, the same one who spoke so movingly at his memorial service in November...
...Name of Sorrow and Hope is exactly what one would expect it to be. Those who want a capsule introduction to Israel's view of itself, and those who want to display their support for Israel, Rabin and peace, will be well served...
...such, it is not the place to look for serious analysis of the Israeli situation, the peace process or the meaning of Rabin's assassination; nor is it likely that the book's audience will want it to be. Instead, In the Name of Sorrow and Hope is, as Publishers' Weekly declares in the book's promotional literature, "filled with the beautiful anguish and sincerity of youth"--it is a chance for the author to memorialize her grandfather while representing Israel to the world in a noncontroversial...
...other component of the book is a kind of good-will propaganda for Israel. If one audience for In the Name of Sorrow and Hope is American Jews who are already sympathetic to Israel, the other is that mass of Americans and Europeans whose idea of Israel has been formed by the horrifying TV images of the intifada, the Palestinian uprising. Hoping to capitalize on the reserves of sympathy she created with her eulogy, Ben Artzi-Pelossof paints a humane picture of Israel and its people. She repeatedly explains her and her friends' desire for peace, their integration into Western...