Word: elegiacally
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...legacy last night. The evening, organized by Harvard Hillel, began with people sharing their personal thoughts about Rabin and a collective chant of the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer. Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995. But the atmosphere in the crowded Adams Lower Common quickly changed from elegiac to combative when the panel discussion began. Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse accused Rabin of legitimating terrorism and betraying his voters by negotiating peace with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords. “This made Rabin the first politician...
...surprise appearance on the album’s resonant closing track, “Broken Arrows,” seems to mark out a kind of elegiac ending to the extended daydream of “Veneer...
...black, sit swapping stories. No premise could be simpler, no setting more static. But because the theater is ultimately a medium of language, of narrative, a skilled playwright can find in just such a conversation all the action an audience needs. The result can be poignant and elegiac, like David Storey's Home, or salty and burlesque, like David Mamet's Duck Variations, or full of rage and silences, like many of Beckett's dramas...
Will that musty and elegiac sense of innocence pass away when Ne Win does? Probably not. In 1981 the general handed over the presidency, and nominal leadership of the country, to a like-minded sexagenarian, General San Yu; last August, at the Fifth Party Congress, the 18-man Central Executive Committee all but enshrined San Yu as Ne Win's heir apparent by creating the new position of deputy party chairman for him. That suggests much of the same. Moreover, adds a foreign diplomat, "Nobody has made a decision in this country for so long except Ne Win that nobody...
...have been his acute awareness of illumination and shadow that gave Adams his elegiac outlook. At one point he recalls a moment when he and his companions came upon the scene that would become his most famous image, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941). With the last rays of sunset striking the tiny settlement, Adams scrambled to set up his camera, shouting "Get that, for God's sake! We don't have much time!" Not much, but enough for an artist of sublime sensibility to catch light on the run and keep it forever. --By Richard Lacayo