Word: bemoaning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Would Buckley abolish the U.N. or pull the U.S. out? Not at all. His book comes out as a lament for the U.N.'s failed trust. Walter Mittyism seizes Buckley again as he imagines a coup in which U.N. military advisers take over and forbid the Arabs to bemoan the plight of the world's poor without sharing their oil, or the Africans to excoriate racism without subduing their own racists. In Buckley's fantasy U.N., too, Eastern European representatives would be required to ask Soviet permission every time they rise to speak. Buckley concludes that...
...aircraft-industry executives do not view the new European entries as seriously diminishing their share of the non-Communist world's aircraft market; American planemakers hold 95% of the commercial market, which is expected to generate sales of $150 billion during the next ten years. But they do bemoan their lack of fresh ideas; nothing new was displayed by the U.S. at the 1973 Paris Air Show, which is considered the aviation showcase of the world. (Instead, U.S. aircraft companies simply revised existing designs.) Yet even with the A300B, the MRCA and many other entries by the British...
THEATER CRITICS HAVE found it rewarding recently to bemoan the lack of innovative, intriguing, entertaining, or even humorous dramatic productions. Unfortunately, Dunster House's production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Sawdoes nothing to challenge this prevalent conception of the state of contemporary theater...
...GROUPS bemoan their lack of sex, they ogle the neighboring exceptions, the happily wedlocked without the ritual--the couples who bring special coffee to breakfast, grim-faced and silent, hugging each other's company like a bad habit--and then back away as if from a scary "No Trespassing" sign. One brand of psychological androgyny shudders at another more extreme form, the two becoming...
...Jack Scott may believe that "you shouldn't feel badly just because you lose" and Dave Meggyesy may bemoan the "incredible racism" and "dehumanizing conditions, violence and sadism" of pro football [May 24], but the overwhelming evidence seems to indicate that the team that is emotionally "up" for the game is the one that wins, not the one whose players' identity crises have been solved and whose civil rights have been observed. Those who opt for a career in professional sports must face the hard fact that their highly inflated salaries are paid for by the people...