Word: bemoans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thaw the Cynic, not the Idealist, is shown setting the tone of Soviet life, and for the first time in a Communist-printed work, explicit references are made to the melancholy effect on Soviet professional life of Stalin's wide-sweeping 1936-38 purge: characters bemoan the disappearance of families and friends for crimes they did not commit. Last week the Congress of Soviet Writers, meeting for the first time in 20 years, found that The Thaw had them skating on very thin...
...mistakes of inexperience that benefited Massachusetts occasionally reared their illegitimate heads today, but he last quarter march, and the tenacity and depth of the line proved that jokes about the present team, like tonight's homecoming festivities are liable to fall very flat. No more than he should bemoan the Massachusetts loss should the student enter the Stadium from now on expecting a ready-made victory. This team may still lose games, but in the process it is going to play very exciting, and at times equally good football...
Debussy's singers have no arias-they sing as naturally as if speaking-while the orchestra sweeps along in the major role. Unlike Wagner's characters, Debussy's do not bemoan their fates; they simply submit to them. Nor is there any Wagnerian bellowing. Where Tristan shouts "Isolde! Geliebte!" at the top of his lungs, with the orchestra going full out, Pelléas whispers "Je t'aime...
Unwittingly, his new wife saddled him with a crew of relatives who abused his generosity and lived a life of deadbeat ease. But it never seemed to occur to Ed Ruffin to bemoan his fate, take to hard drinking, or quit on life in any of the other established fashions. To the Negroes on his plantation he became "Mr. Ed," a man of justice. To the women of his family he spelled security without servility. In a sense, he has given his life for his family and friends, yet it is only on the day of his death that...
There is no use for us who are emotionally committed to public schools as schools for all to denounce or bemoan the growth of private schools. The founding of a new independent school in a locality is a challenge to those connected with public education. Granted the "snob aspect" of some of these new independent schools, nevertheless, I feel sure in many cases they would never have come into existence if the management of the local high schools had been wiser. Education is a social process. This is a free country and people will not be pushed around by educators...