Word: bemoans
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That’s one thing that Hall says has changed about poetry in America. While some will always bemoan the death of poetry, Hall says that it is much more popular than when he was an undergraduate...
...that the author JT LeRoy is just a phantom of two washed-up rockers’ imaginations. LeRoy, HIV-positive queer writer of “autobiographical” childhood truck-stop prostitute tales, does not exist, and his rags-to-riches memoirs are a hoax. Oh, the critics bemoan, what happened to the importance of being honest? Where lies the lost virtue of authenticity? A better question might be, “Have we lost our grip on reality?”For several years, everyone acted as if a person named JT LeRoy existed; his publisher paid...
Duane truly was a leader, in every sense of the word. Duane supported each member of our Indian community, especially acting as a mentor and personal friend to freshmen. Duane knew that there were so few Indian students at Harvard. Rather than bemoan this fact, he sought to change it. He was active in minority affairs on campus, serving as the Harvard Foundation’s Student Advisory Council co-chair in 2002 and 2003. Duane explained that he served in this capacity specifically because there were so few Indians at Harvard during his SAC tenure. Since small numbers could...
...University’s historic center. The aftermath of the concert found many of us enjoying the sight of long lost freshman year roommates and Core course section friends from semesters past. And indeed that was the major success of Yardfest, 2006: it brought the campus together. While many bemoan the dearth of House pride here in Cambridge, Harvard has a healthy capacity for class pride, and even College pride, which ought to be tapped into more often. Not being assigned an upperclass House as a first year may dilute the excitement of being a Dunster resident, but it gives...
This statement of course deserves both explanation and qualification—it serves little purpose to abstractly bemoan the postmodern condition and the demise of great literature as a culturally significant force...