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...Dolmen's Lament, Musical Archetypes in Irish Oral Keening Tradition--by Francis B. Corcoran, professor of Composition and Theory, Staatliche Hochscule fur Musik und dartsellende Kunst. Music Building, Room...
...Black Eyed Man, that problem is solved by supplementing the traditional country instrumentation--lap steel guitar, fiddle, accordion, tremolo guitar, tambourine) with more daring sounds--a fat horn section now and then, a mandolin, a cello. Helping out is Margo's willingness to sing something other than lamentations (although "Cowboy Junkies Lament" is as good as they get), and Alan Anton's discovery of the melodic capabilities of the bass...
Most of us remember Carter's malaise and Kissinger's Spenglerian forebodings. We tend not to remember John Adams' lament that "democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself...
...businessman may lament losing contact with an illegitimate son he may have had by still another woman. Equally, he may have concocted this story just to dissuade his second wife from having an abortion. The man seemingly believes that on safari he once faced down a charging lion, which sniffed and retreated in apparent acknowledgment of a fellow animal presence. But the memory may be a mere metaphor for the kind of masculinity he is trying to keep alive. The facts ultimately matter far less than the moral dilemma: whether to mire oneself in dull decency, like the nice nurse...
...Harvard's strong showing is cause for celebration, not lament, over could-have-beens...