Word: weepingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...declared an enemy of students. All that is necessary evidence to understand this fact is that he personally ordered the shooting of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Now think of poor, dead Deng, all cooped up in his glass casket. There is no need to weep for him, America...
...students. All that is necessary evidence to understand this fact is that he may as well have personally ordered the shooting of anti-war protesters at Kent State in 1970. Now think of poor, dead Nixon, all cooped up in his wooden casket. There is no need to weep for him, America...
...self-respecting students did weep for Nixon when he died in 1994. Basically, most of us could have cared less. But the more poignant response came from those who were students in the 1960s, like my high school biology teacher, who had been part of the Democratic convention protests in Chicago in '68. I recall her walking into class that day, being queried on the ex-president's passing, and responding with a brief expletive directed to the deceased...
...several self-absorbed politicians did weep for Richard Nixon. Again, Bill Clinton emerges as the central figure eulogizing a bad, dead man, saying: "Oh yes, he knew controversy amid defeat as well as victory. He made mistakes, and they, like his accomplishments, are part of his life and record. But the enduring lesson of Richard Nixon is that he never gave up being part of the action and passions of his times...
...Ennis Cosby is a tragedy, unquestionably, but others will die a similar death in Los Angeles, New York City and Washington. Will those deaths incite the nation to show outrage against violence? When will we realize that these victims had fathers, mothers, siblings? We have lost our ability to weep for faceless, nameless victims. They deserve our sympathy as much as celebrities do. MICHAEL TIMOTHY WATERMAN Washington...