Word: lament
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...service held during the week before Easter—three hours of melancholy psalmody, chanted in a foreign tongue and, at the end when the final candle on the hearse is extinguished, enveloped in complete darkness. Reverent and sublime, indeed, but a dirge first and foremost—a lament for the present day of woe and a longing for a better time since passed...
...Harvard, the conservative reflex has been to lament the despoiled temple—praise the University’s illustrious history while bewailing the perceived decline. To be a conservative means to conserve, of course, but to conserve what? This implies not only that something is worth conserving, something precious, but also something under attack, something to be defended. What at Harvard should a conservative conserve? What is a Harvard conservative...
...latest solo album, “The Year of the Gentleman;” Neo Ne-Yo’s for the ladies. “She’s so much better than me / I’m so unworthy of her!” goes the lament on “Why Does She Stay.” And while he once wasn’t above telling the ladies to look in their girlfriend’s purses for his number, this song reveals a Ne-Yo who’s wracked with guilt over?...
...grating moments. Wainwright is very talented, but I wouldn’t want her to sing me a nightly lullaby, and she can wax whiny. Still, modern music could use some more true artists. At the risk of sounding cliché, it’s easy to lament the dearth of songwriters who can create rhythms, melodies, and harmonies that are beautiful without being over-sampled or over-trodden—especially ones that give a fresh and insightful peek into the human condition. —Staff writer Meredith S. Steuer can be reached at msteuer@fas.harvard.edu
...money, ain't got no class ..." It was a kind of musical demolition job, tearing down the old conventions as well as society's taboos, clearing the way for a more authentic, organic mode of expression. In one song, Frank Mills, a waiflike street girl sings a lament for the boy she met once and can't find again, the purposely prosaic lyrics clashing charmingly with the lovely melody. (Don't need no rhyme, don't need no chorus, don't need the lines to even scan...