Word: weep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claim went--then when people in Cambridge retreated from political activism they should have gone to the movies more. But the reverse is true, and true because almost without exception the best movies stem from a realistic base that may be transformed, fantasized, or abstracted--they weep in one eye, they may cry in the other, but they are grounded in reality. The Welles's Larry Jackson thinks that the Nixon administration hurt people's interest in good films just as he thinks it crushed the student movement "just after the first moratorium." Since then, he says, "films that accentuate...
...present as well as his son. There is a climactic moment when Pirsig thinks that he is again losing his grip and that Phaedrus may regain control. He decides to send the boy home by bus and check into a hospital. The boy refuses to go and begins to weep uncontrollably. Then, for the first time, father and son confront the painful truth about Phaedrus. The past and present come together, and Pirsig and Chris, who up to this point have seemed like subject and object, are united by what might be appropriately described as the underlying quality of familial...
...remarriage. Anyone with a first spouse still living who has married for a second time is considered to be living in adultery, and the price of adultery, Herbert Armstrong has written, is "ETERNAL PUNISHMENT! ETERNALDEATH!" Says Carrozzo: "I have watched many a man and his wife and children weep when I told them they must separate in order to enter the faith...
...everything evil about America culminated in a series of criminal apocalypses, and he reminded us of the essential decency of our people. Look, he said to people in Iowa and Wisconsin and Mississippi, if you could hear the screams in Vietnam, if you could see the death, you would weep for our country. I believe that you would have no part of the crimes that are committed in your name. Perhaps that is why the cynics laughed, because he believed in that essential goodness--but I also believe it and I am grateful to him for saying...
...hate that foolish game we played And the need that was expressed And the mercy that you showed to me Who ever would have guessed I went out on lower Broadway And I felt that place within That hollow place where martyrs weep And angels play with...