Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Stalin sunworshippers there may be in the U. S. could be guessed from a festive evening in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week which opened with the Star-Spangled Banner and the Internationale. Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament's son Corliss, who describes himself as "not a Communist but a critical Communist sympathizer," was on hand with two Golden Books of American Friendship With The Soviet Union weighing 50 Ib. each. These contained the autographs of 100,000 U. S. citizens, were presented by critical Communist Sympathizer Lament to genial, likable Soviet Ambassador...
...LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF A BULLFIGHTER AND OTHER POEMS-Federico Garcia Lorca-English translation by A. L. Lloyd-Oxford University Press...
...consciously to exploit their simple metres and barbaric flair. In Spain and in Europe at large the acknowledged master of this school was Federico Garcia Lorca, a musician and theatrical producer who was shot by Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias (a bull-fighter). Readers who have hair that is capable of rising will feel scalped at several points in this harshly sensuous, musically calculated and fiercely whole-hog song of death, even in the literal translation which A. L. Lloyd prints along with...
...whose holders could cut across rigid departmental divisions and fertilize the whole university, he told his friends that he was thinking of no imaginary scholar but of Harvard's own restlessly roving William James (art-to-medicine-to-psychology-to-philosophy). A year ago Harvardman Thomas William Lament responded with a $500,000 endowment for a roving professorship, and President Conant last year indicated that he would finance a few more from the $5,500,000 Harvard received at its Tercentenary. Appointed last week was the first roving professor, 66-year-old Roscoe Pound, retiring dean of the Harvard...
...Hecuba's Lament from the Trojan...