Word: lament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lament's Lament...
...Corliss Lament's macabre ritual [TIME, Nov. 22] is fine for a dead dog but hardly befits a human being who has an immortal soul. If even atheists "have a hankering for music and a few well chosen words," it is not unthinkable that in the terrible moment of suspension between life and death, they might also have a hankering for a Reality that is wider than music and higher than Santayana's quiet despair. It would be an injustice . . . to force upon them the inhumanity of "A Humanist Funeral Service." They will get a much more sympathetic...
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...customary to begin any criticism of a college production with a lament about the difficulty of the row which the cast has chosen to hoe. There seems always to be abundant sympathy of the actors who struggle manfully with their chosen play and at the last succumb, done in by their own ambitions. In selecting School for Scandal for its first production this season, the Harvard Dramatic Club has wisely stifled its ambitions. School for Scandal is not a taxing play, for even when done with mediocrity, it is funny. When it is enhanced with production and acting genius...
...Adelaide's Lament in Guys and Dolls sings of "psychosomatic symptoms difficult to endure" ("In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold / A person can develop a cold"). But Manhattan's Dr. Bret Ratner disagrees with Adelaide. The psychosomatic approach to allergies, he complains, has become so popular that the family doctor has a hard time deciding whether to refer cases to a psychiatrist or an allergist. Allergist Ratner plumps for the allergist. Says he: "If the psychiatric factors are treated exclusively, there can be little hope for lasting help...