Word: mourn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chou Enlai, the last effective rational member of the inner circle, had died in January 1976. Twelve weeks later came the ceremonies of Qingming at which the Chinese honor their dead. Spontaneously, on April 1, thousands thronged Tiananmen Square to mourn him. The next day, more. Then again the following day and the day after, hundreds of thousands, in silent protest against the tyranny of the Gang of Four. Somehow Chou had come to be the symbol of the true faith of the original revolution. In July Chu Teh commander in chief of the revolution's armies, died. Then came...
...delighted that the public outcry thwarted the Defense Department's plans to wound dogs by firing squads so that military doctors can learn to treat the injuries [Aug. 8]. But I mourn for the pigs, cattle, monkeys and other animals that continue to endure hell in slaughterhouses and research laboratories. When they cry out, no one listens...
...says, "the dark cloud has lifted. I've regained a good perspective on the fact that I enjoyed being here.... There will be pain for a long time. It takes a while to work itself out of your body, but I'm on my way." He doesn't mourn what has been lost: "The fellowship, for instance, would have been exciting, but the job I have now probably wouldn't have been there next year. I'm content with how things turned...
...costume quickly and return anon.") It continues through a brief and purposefully confusing ploy of divorces and jealousy--regular General Hospital fare--("Oh, woe, that I should unaraesthetized bear such pain") and through to the end ("...and o'er the martinis that our good pay makes possible, We'll mourn the sorry state of this... most grievous hospital."). It's hardly Hamlet, but it sounds like...
...Germany is not the United States, the Germans have much to fear from Nazi propaganda. But book burning has no place in a democracy. Moreover, for a university to revoke its degrees because of the beliefs of the holder strikes a heavy blow at intellectual freedom. Yet few could mourn the disappearance of Dr. Staeglich's book from the face of the earth--that is why the case is so difficult. But that is also why it is so important. Making distinctions between acceptable and unacceptable ideas is a dangerous task. The Nazis themselves taught the world that freedoms...