Word: weeping
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...change her diaper and administer the bottle and coax a belch or two and walk my lonely post, kitchen to dining room to living room and back, singing hymns to her and telling her little things about the 20th century, and sometimes she dozes off, and sometimes she weeps terribly, and nothing I do can reach her and it absolutely breaks my heart. Nothing Puccini ever wrote is so tragic as the inconsolable cry of your own child. I walk, and she screams until she gasps for breath, and I bow my head and weep. I weep. I say, over...
...mind quietly and which can, when touched by one last straw, incite a riot. It may be that the death of Diana came simply as one loss and absence too many. Whatever else Diana was in the world, she effected a lovely presence, and who could not weep for the loss of that? Gone, Diana seemed to emblemize the word; she was everything gone. One grief stood for all. As in any epiphany, many people probably did not even know why they were weeping...
...state that has for many years been governed by a communist majority. Her successor, Sister Nirmala, was free to give up her Hindu religion and embrace Mother Teresa's philosophy in the Roman Catholic tradition. And politicians of many a hue were wary about interfering with her goodness. Weep not, for much good has come from this frail and wonderful woman. LEKHA SUBAIYA New Orleans
...simple and as personal as that. And that is why we weep for ourselves...
...things in life are as confounding as marriage, and that includes your best friend's, if not your own. What we do know is that when good people have bad marriages, they often behave poorly. If half of what we write about him is true, Clinton should weep with gratitude that Hillary hasn't left him. But she hasn't left, and no amount of reporting is going to make us a better judge of that decision than she. In New York, a more germane question for the press would be whether the mayor's wife should give...