Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the President on down, the Administration reacted with sorrow and anger to what was undoubtedly the worst tragedy of the Reagan presidency. When he spoke on the White House lawn, the President did not use notes, because, as he said privately, he wanted "to do it from the heart." Reagan spent !? much of Sunday morning in the White House Situation Room with Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, McFarlane and General John W. Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At a morning meeting, the National Security Council decided against...
...words apostrophize the miseries of passion: "Begone, begone, ye children of Melancholy!" But set on its dark ground, with a rectangle of slaty blue and a marvelous, soaring shape of white paper-Mallarme's swan, making a personal appearance-its stilted sentiment turns into a concise image of sorrow and relief...
...climate of sorrow and guilt that engulfed most Americans, there was an opening for an accommodation between the races that might otherwise never have presented itself. Lyndon Johnson, looking even graver than he had appeared when he announced his abdication at week's beginning, called at week's end for an extraordinary joint session of Congress to hear "the President's recommendations for action-constructive action instead of destructive action-in this hour of national need." It is not enough, Johnson implied, to mourn Martin Luther King. His death demands expiation...
...closes her show with a slow version of Happy Days Are Here Again that lends the song an ambivalent sorrow only a very wise girl could dream...
...hours can serve as a comprehensive and comprehensible history lesson. For those who remember all too well, the series offers an opportunity for reconsideration, perhaps reconciliation. If given the chance, the chronicle might captivate even those who feel they have no will or wish to relive the sorrow and the pity of that time. -By William A. Henry III. Reported by James Wilde/New York