Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statement released yesterday, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson expressed sorrow over King's death...
Perhaps the flags in Harvard Square weren't at half-mast for President Nixon after all. They might just have easily marked our sorrow at the loss of a different, more literal, monument...
...ashamed as an Israeli that such a horrible incident took place here." That was an astonishing expression from the icily reserved Rabin, especially given his never concealed loathing for the P.L.O. chief. Politicians on the don't-give-the-Arabs-an-inch Israeli right also spoke in tones of sorrow and repentance. "It's a crime, a terrible crime, and I condemn it totally," said Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, which has said that if it returns to power it will not abide by the agreement for Palestinian self-rule. The National Religious Party, composed of the strictly...
...citizens of Sarajevo, offending everyone as usual, think the so-called historical event in Brussels is no more and no less than a great lie. That is why we are neither happy nor optimistic but completely desperate and full of sorrow. It is not because no one wants to help us. We don't even pay attention to the big lie that this is a case of crimes against humanity. On the contrary, it is clear to Sarajevans that this is a crime that humanity itself has afflicted upon simple, unassuming people...
...remembrance of those days of liberation and excess segues into a recollection of the coming of AIDS. The men depict a landscape of fear, ignorance, and sorrow. Wayne Corbitt, a Black performance poet and play wright, begins to cry as he recalls the his lover's death of AIDS. It's a difficult moment, painful to watch, but one that demonstrates the extent to which the men in the documentary bared their souls for the camera...