Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holocaust actually mean? What are we asking when we demand that people "confront" or "deal with" such a disaster? The Holocaust certainly can and should be studied, analyzed, remembered, but memory is of rather limited value. Even after all that has been said about it, in anger or in sorrow, the Holocaust cannot really be understood -- or expiated...
...Capitol Hill is reflected in a gradual but perceptible ebbing in the power of the so-called Jewish lobby. "Today the great and grievous fright about AIPAC is gone," says a high-ranking staff member of the House subcommittee on Middle Eastern affairs. "There is a real sense of sorrow up here at what's become of Israel, that it's been reduced to bashing Palestinians and producing leaders like Shamir and Sharon." Such sentiments -- shocking at first hearing when one considers that their source is a politician who has worked closely with Jewish leaders for years -- are echoed...
Cosseted by the intellectual hothouse of New York City film buffs, Haskell is unprepared for living a life out of her control. A high achiever accustomed to getting her way, she must now deal with the maddening coldness of the medical establishment, along with the crankiness and sorrow of having someone she loves sick beyond understanding...
...ending of the Bess Mess is known -- she was acquitted of bribery charges stemming from her affair with a married man -- it is a tribute to Shana Alexander's storytelling that the reader believes at points along the way that Myerson and those around her could be spared the sorrow that ultimately engulfs them...
...when the very technology that can save lives is merely prolonging death, how is a family to decide whether to stop the treatment? By adopting the abstract reasoning of jurists and ethicists weighing legal arguments about privacy and moral arguments about mercy? Through some private intuition about how much sorrow they can bear and how much courage they can summon? Or by some blunt utilitarian calculation about whether it is more important to keep Grandmother alive than to send Junior to college? In the end, individuals are left with an intricate puzzle about what is legal -- and what is right...