Word: mourn
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...mistaken in believing that in order to respect the privacy of people, it is not "appropriate for the college to note the occasion of the death" in a more public, college-wide way. The opportunity as a community to mourn the departed can help us to realize how much our lives combine. With this realization we have a better chance, both individually and as a group, to seek to improve the lives of those who remain...
...ceremonies in Normandy will celebrate the victory and mourn the dead. They will also mourn, almost subliminally, a certain moral clarity that has been lost, a sense of common purpose that has all but evaporated. Never again, perhaps, would the Allies so handsomely collaborate. The invasion of Normandy was a thunderously heroic blow dealt to the evil empire. Never again, it may be, would war seem so unimpeachably right, so necessary and just. Never again, perhaps, would American power and morality so perfectly coincide...
...have trouble accepting this. What you speak of is wholey unconventional. We've always scorned the Olympics for its impurities. Day in and day out we intellectualize and mourn its political nature. It's hard to even appreciate your ideas," one of the baffled men admits...
...reflects back upon us, through the heroically magnified deeds of its adepts, the purity with which, as children open to and eager for enchantment, we first encountered it. This game is a mind game, an ideal, and one that seems an almost lost legend for which people nowadays mourn, as they do for many things that graced a more leisurely and miraculous time. But baseball is also a reality, a game played by ungrammatical men who, like most people, have grown up without necessarily growing wise. They chew tobacco, indulge in alcoholic beverages and do not always fend...
...they have left a very rich one--it is to keep our hearts and minds forever fixed on what is most important in this too often dark and turbulent world--qualities of compassion, the meaningful pursuit of excellence in the service of human needs, and great love. As we mourn their passing, we should be thankful for them. It was once written of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Standing apart is one way of standing out." Let us hope that John and RuSelle's standing Loneliness' and isolation will be instructive...