As he went to the podium, I realized that I was hearing another kind of music from the tree above me. The procession was formally seated and president James Troha rose to speak. I tried to hide my tears from the people around me, and desperately searched for a tissue. It was the strangest mix of grief, loss, and joy. The wave of emotion took me by surprise when the processional music began, and the long line of colorfully robed faculty and graduates walked forward. I was filled with pleasant expectation of meaningful statements of blessing and encouragement for the graduates, and, of course, lovely singing by the choir. The service was outdoors on a gorgeous evening. I was there not because my son was graduating-he just finished his freshman year-but because he was singing in the choir. The baccalaureate is a worship service to bless the graduating class. How many have experienced an outpouring of emotion recently? It happened to me in May, at the baccalaureate service at Juniata College. It isn’t easy to see how that chasm can be bridged-how love can find a way (“What’s irretrievable after a pandemic year,” Washington Post, May 25, 2021). The social, cultural, political damage of these years, the deepening of the already deep rifts in society in many parts of the world, including the United States, Britain, and India, will take longer. The social damage of the pandemic itself, the fear of our old social lives, in bars and restaurants and dance halls and sports stadiums, will take time to heal (although a percentage of people seem to know no fear already). I was intrigued by his conclusion, the idea that if there is any solution for the social damage done by the pandemic, it will be love: His op-ed focused on seeing COVID-19 as an illness and not a metaphor for general social ills, or a political weapon. Many people, however, are still boxed in by anxiety, as Salman Rushdie noted in the Washington Post. Although the pandemic continues to grow and spread in many countries-we grieve for hard-hit places like India, Brazil, Venezuela-here in the US we’re seeing excitement and exuberance. Ironically, in contrast to the pent-up middle class women, Amelia saw the poor farm women as freer.A lot of emotion is being released as pandemic restrictions are phased out. Indignant Cards deck Falcons, prove they deserved a spot 2009 Mounds of pent-up angst and haunted history disappeared in one sweet outpouring of defiance as the Cardinals earned the franchise's first home playoff win since 1947 when they called Chicago home. LOST IN NUMBERS: Twenty-Three Dead Characters That Should Return For The Final Season Of ‘Lost’ » MTV Movies Blog 2010 How'd He Die: After years of pent-up rage, Benjamin Linus murdered his father with a gas canister moments before the other DHARMA workers were mass-murdered. Richard III Lullaby Hundreds & Thousands – review 2011 The dainty flourishes of the wrist and the slowly spreading smile suggest carefully withheld, pent-up force. Simon Patten, one of the most influential economists of the early twentieth century, argued for an increase in the material wealth of ordinary Americans, but only so that they would not seek solace from their poverty by succumbing to “debasing appeals to pent-up passions.”Ī Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010Īfter years of living as beleaguered dissidents, Maher and his fellow organizers were suddenly swamped by an outpouring of pent-up emotion.Īn Egyptian revolutionary seeks Obama's support 2011 It was as if we took the intellectual heritage of Franklin Roosevelt, the moral inspiration of John Kennedy, and a decade of pent-up demand for social change and converted them into a social reality. Orders taken by dealers over the summer and what Mendel called " pent-up demand" should give the troubled automaker a sizeable boost throughout the fourth quarter, he said.
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