Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was 50 years ago. Since then the true story has been told only in fragmentary fashion, as the facts filtered through decades of unrelenting Soviet denial. Fittingly, another poet, Robert Conquest, has now come forward to write The Harvest of Sorrow, the first major scholarly book on the horrors that struck Pasternak speechless. The author of five books of poetry, Conquest is no stranger to Stalinist atrocities, as witness his magisterial 1968 study, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. For Harvest he gathered a mass of scattered data, including testimony by survivors and participants, accounts...
...death among leaders of the Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo), the guerrilla movement that has been fighting Machel's government with arms and logistical support from South Africa. In a statement issued in Lisbon, Renamo said Machel's Frelimo Party "is responsible for innumerable crimes. Thus we feel no sorrow over the death of Frelimo's chief." Renamo said it would intensify its guerrilla operations, with the goal of the "total liberation of the country." Through a brutal campaign that has killed thousands of civilians and uprooted many more from their homes, Renamo already controls large areas of Mozambique, including...
...this supernatural world view is nothing less than tragic. On a personal level, it is tragic for the Steel's to have their sorrow compounded by insinuations that their daughter got what she deserved. And on the political level, it is tragic because it encourages politicians to speak of divine evils instead of working to combat serious problems such as drunk driving...
...enormous disappointment for those of us who were following the proceedings. To see President Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev so warm and cordial with one another at lunch, and so dejected and grim-faced only a few hours later, reflected their, as well as our, sorrow at what almost had been in our grasp...
...fact, the great sorrow of the Perelmans' lives did not have a sexual cause. In December 1940, West and his new wife Eileen (the title character of My Sister Eileen) were killed in an automobile accident. Laura slowly descended into alcoholism. Perelman mourned privately and rarely discussed his brother-in-law. He went on to write film scripts and plays that failed too often, and he turned out the pieces, mostly for The New Yorker, for which he is remembered: the collisions of Britishisms and Yiddishisms, the classic parodies of James Joyce and Raymond Chandler, the explosive lampoons of popular...