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...provincial-government slogan: "De plus en plus en Québec, c 'est en français que ça se passe " (More and more in Quebec, it's in French that things are happening). Quebec has sprouted dozens of novelists, playwrights and chansonniers who sing their culture's praises?and bewail their unhappy history as a conquered people. One of the most popular plays in Quebec City, La Complainte des Hivers Rouges (The Red Winters' Lament), by Roland LePage, salutes the leaders of an abortive 1837 rebellion against the British with the lines...
...more miraculously, do the impediments to romance. A reluctant Laura accompanies the husband she has previously vowed to leave to his new job in New York. Following her lead, Abbie and Harry, suddenly reconciled, march out of a bar with their arms around each other, leaving poor Max to bewail his fate...
Credit counselors invariably bewail the willingness of consumers to take the first time-payment deal they are offered -and with good reason. To test the benefits of shopping around, TIME staffers in New England, the Midwest and the California-Nevada area asked various lenders what terms they would.offer to a salesman who earned $20,000 a year and wanted to borrow $2,000 to take his wife and two children on a vacation. The salesman was assumed to be making mortgage payments on a $40,000 house, and to be paying $110 a month on an auto loan...
...unwitting murder of his brother is juxtaposed against the assassination of a president, presumably Kennedy, and of Martin Luther King, Jr., while the American public, embodied in a hysterical chorus, shirks all blame for the killings. Society is rather tritely compared to a flock of lemmings, and four women bewail the discontinuity of modern life as they clench and splay their fingers, droning: "Open. Close. Open. Close. No effort... Makes these two movements...
Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge of all men; We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed...