Word: mourn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grief for the Academician and the former street singer was nationwide-the French only bury their politicians but mourn their artists. With the deaths of Piaf and Cocteau, France had been robbed of two incomparable figures, whose joint epitaph might well be Piaf's defiant song, Je ne regrette rien...
...major share of credit for carrying Los Angeles County for Jack Kennedy in 1960. Last week White House spokesmen made it clear that Unruh is still the Administration's favorite Democrat in the nation's most populous state. As for Big Daddy himself, he could only mourn: "Sometimes I think the only thing I could do to stay out of controversy would be to cut my throat. But then they'd blame me for bloodying up the speaker's podium...
...mourn the passing of John XXIII? Shouldn't we rather thank God for lending him to us for over 81 years? I do. And I am not a Catholic or even a professed Christian...
...crowd of 5,000 gathered at the cemetery just outside British Guiana's Georgetown capital for the funeral of a Cabinet minister. But only a few were there to mourn. Most of them were waiting for Cheddi and Janet Jagan, the Marxist husband and wife team who misrule the small, self-governing colony perched on South America's northeast coast. When the Jagans arrived, the crowd surged forward hurling coconut shells, bottles, bricks and stones at their Prime Minister. Pulling a coat over his head, Jagan fled with his wife to a car and sped away...
...recital was a tremendous success with the visitors. The critics agreed that Rubinstein's playing was almost metaphysical. "The sad thing for us," mused the Frankfurter Allgemeine, "is that German musical culture of the time of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Liszt, which we have every reason to mourn for, is so immediately present in hardly any artist of the world but Artur Rubinstein...