Word: sorrowful
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...prominent politicians got the news at bathing beaches and, dragging their robes, galloped across the sand to the nearest telephones. Shopkeepers in Che-hab's home town of Jounieh closed down to protest the resignation, and churches of his faith (Maronite Roman Catholic) tolled their bells in sorrow. Politicians kept Chehab's telephone jangling and pounded on the door of his Jounieh home...
...dated issue of Motion Picture, Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper wrote a bare-fanged ''open letter" to Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Excerpt: ''Have you a complex about losing babies? You lost two unborn children, one in 1958 and the other in 1959. Is it true that, in sorrow, you even put vodka into your bouillon?* Marilyn, don't drink . . . It won't bring back the baby...
...farewell words to his son: "And you will also not forget to love me a little, for I do-Oh, Sonny!, thinking so much and so often of you . . ." The words lift the scene above matters of law or even justice to the simple level of love and sorrow...
...often descend to the banalities of To the New Moon, first published in a Communist paper in celebration of Russia's Sputnik. Mostly he pays in recognizable poet's coin. His world is shrouded in melancholy, in mournful contemplation of man's fate. "Give me sorrow daily bread," and, doubtfully hoping, "perhaps the heart is left us, perhaps the heart . . ." His native Sicily is never far from his thoughts, "warm with tears and mourning," and he wonders "how much time has fallen with the leaves of the poplars, how much blood into the rivers of the earth...
...MORE IN SORROW...