Word: lament
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...Odetta lends her deep, dramatic voice to ten of his songs. She is as authoritative as the Delphic oracle in The Times They Are A-Changin', brave and bluesy in Walkin' Down the Line; but she melts the fierceness of Masters of War into a mere lament...
...Products plans to market a toy attache case, complete with a four-piece toy sniper rifle, plastic dagger, decoding machine and a "searchproof" lock that, if tampered with, triggers a cap-firing device. Last week Roulette released a new rock'n'roll recording, Double-O-Seven, the lament of a young man whose "baby went and fell in love with Double-OSeven...
...cushion bearing the diamond and gold regalia of the Order of the Garter. More than 100 sailors of the Royal Navy-Churchill's favorite service-drew the gun carriage and its burden forward at a measured 65 paces to the minute.* Each minute, the cannon boomed their soldierly lament...
...full, pleated or gathered skirts. Dresses, in sunny pastels and fresh flowered prints, acknowledge the shapes they clothe; so do the coats, with narrow belts that define waistlines instead of camouflaging them. There was not a pair of pants or a bared navel in the show, or a single lament for their absence. The Bohan brand of exotica-soft silk tunics, rajah coats, full-length sheaths cut above the ankle in front-may have been inspired by the designer's trip to India last fall. But the results are all Paris, and all Paris rejoiced...
...Though he was born in St. Louis, the son of a wholesale grocer, his roots ran back to New England and the upright Unitarianism of his clergyman grandfather. At Harvard, he dabbled in Sanskrit and Oriental religions, wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of F. H. Bradley. Prufrock, that lament of the aging, was published in his 20s. Looking back, the hunger for faith in Eliot's early poems now seems obvious and his religious development inevitable. In 1927-the same year he became a British subject-he was confirmed in the Church of England...