Word: lament
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walked out in the streets of La redo," goes the old cowboy lament. Residents of the Texas town (pop. 91,449) are now asking, "What streets?" Thanks to former officials who "mishandled" city funds, an astonishing 2,720 of Laredo's 5,400-odd blocks need paving at a cost of some $10,000 each. Another 2,000 blocks require resurfacing at $2,600 apiece. With little money available for such work, Mayor Aldo Tatangelo and City Councilman Felipe Sanchez decided to put the streets on the block...
Still, it is more convincing to lament to an audience than a mirror...
Party rhetoric does not differ markedly from earlier pronouncements and warnings. "The abyss" has existed every since the August 1980 strike in Gdansk's Lenin Shipyards; it is the abyss of freedom which has proved far too deep for the Soviet players and their pawns. We can only lament that a genuine labor movement with broad national support and an innovative program has been so blatantly repressed by a state supposedly dedicated to its workers...
...entire exercise is one that leaves me very cold indeed," said President Bok, referring to this damaging commercial spirit that taints the high-minded goals of higher education. And indeed Bok, as a leader of American education, has every right to lament last week's developments. But whether, as president of Harvard, the result of the vote--which pared the membership of Division I-A from 137 schools to less than 100-should worry himexcessively is another matter...
Most wait quietly, unsure of what to expect. Ginsberg is reading his epic poem of outrage and lament to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its publication. Media announcements have recalled the public theatrics of the poet, an ostentatious non-comformist, a self-described "Hebraic Melvillean bardic breath." He drew together the strident Beat Generation of the 1950s, led the flower children of the 1960s into Eastern religions, hymned the antinuclear movement of the 1970s. Throughout, he sustained his vernacular yet visionary voice-marked, said one admiring fellow poet, by a "note of hysteria that hit the taste of the young...