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performance of “King Lear”. Most after-school events also were
scrapped.
If the day showed many Greater Cincinnatians at their very
best – evidenced by contributions pouring into the Red Cross and
by so many people volunteering to donate blood that the Hoxworth
Center had to turn some away – there also were some ugly
moments Tuesday.
Although investigators have not yet officially established
blame for the terrorist attacks, some already have rushed to
judgment.
Tuesday morning in Covington, a Muslim woman
apparently was attacked in her car; though not hurt, she was badly
shaken up by the assault. Similarly, the Islamic Center of Greater
Cincinnati in West Chester received four telephone threats,
prompting it to cancel its school and all its worship services.
One driver, aggravated by traffic being diverted around the
closed streets surrounding the federal building in downtown
Cincinnati, shouted, “Bomb now, and ask later!”
The passions stirred by Tuesday’s unfathomable tragedy –
shock, sorrow, vulnerability, fear and anger – reflected the
devastating blow to America’s psyche, felt here as acutely as
anywhere outside New York and Washington.
“The structures hit are of such symbolic importance”, said
Dr. John Kennedy, a forensic psychiatrist and medical director of
the Center for Threat Assessment. “it allows everyone to say, “If
they can do it there, they can do it here”. Everyone feels… the
uncertainty”.
Archbishop Pilarczyk, meanwhile, offered comforting
words and reassurance. “Do not panic. Do not despair”, the
archbishop said. “Evil is not going to have the last word”.
(From Monitor World)
Assignments
1. Learn the glossary.
unfathomable – too strange or mysterious to be understood.

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