Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that few viewers will have trouble identifying with, though its story is far from the lives of the nation's more privileged. There are the familiar dilemmas of childhood (stealing, lying, response to bullying), the familiar authority figures (mother, adult store owners, schoolteacher) and familiar emotions (fear, love, sorrow...
...cerebration have led to no more satisfying conclusion than that evil truly exists and that in some unknown way it will be conquered and made to serve the hidden purposes of God. For believer and unbeliever alike, Dostoevsky's riddle-"What am I doing on this earth where sorrow reigns?"-can only be solved provisionally or not at all. The collective historical experience of America is such that it has not really contemplated the question, much less tried to answer it; since De Tocqueville a succession of travelers from older and supposedly wiser civilizations have concluded that...
Mathias felt that the Haynsworth nomination was an appeal to sectionalism and to the right. He also believed that it threatened the court's standards. So he cast his negative vote-but with sorrow. "It's been such a tough ordeal because you wanted to stick with the President. And then compassion for Haynsworth makes it very personal. So you have all the wrenching of loyalties and compassion pulling against your sense of truth, and you know that people have entrusted you with this kind of decision. So you just have to do the best you can with...
...band enjoyed the Yale show, drowned its sorrow in champagne put their copies of the original show into the circular file, and started envisioning formations for halftime shows on Watson Rink...
...therefore have sorrow...