Word: woe
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...Motown Woe...
This assessment is not a judgment of her personality but of the role she has chosen to play. She is a fiercely dedicated and protective wife. Woe unto anyone whom she catches speaking unfavorably about Ronald Reagan. When Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver attacked the then-Governor of California, Nancy was immediately on the phone. "But, honey," Reagan said, after listening for a while, "I can't have him arrested just because he said those things." Acknowledges Reagan now: "She bleeds pretty good...
...leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish; hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world...
...energy crisis and warnings of limits give Americans a guilty fright; they know perfectly well that they have been squandering with an abstracted heedlessness, consuming on automatic pilot, like the jaws' dreamy working of a wad of gum. "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion," said the prophet Amos...
...magazine writer and editor), but "lately he has the feeling that he is not so much pursuing his destiny as furiously racing alongside it, the way cars race trains in old movies." He noodles the lacrimae rerum note. He studies life from a perspective of witty but vaguely narcissistic woe...