Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much larger than he had previously used. The heavy dose of choral music and the numerous arias in sona ta form make much of the opera sound like an oratorio. The chorus, for example, joins in a love duet with Sutherland and Gedda in the early scenes, sings a lament for the dead Euridice, and in the third act consoles Orfeo with four lengthy passages. But the opera also sparkles with tuneful solos, and concludes with a scene of effective operatic violence: the Bacchanalians who have poisoned Orfeo are swept away by a tidal wave; the curtain falls...
...first three years to perform many of its most important tasks, but sacrificing the program to the Departments will only worsen the situation. HEW will be no more successful in coordinating the activities of other Departments and may not even feel the responsibility to do so. Eliminating OEO, officials lament, will mean the end of a period of "trying, testing, and learning...
...position. Kádár, who called back the Russian tanks during the 1956 uprising in Hungary, has shrewdly conciliated the voices of economic reform in recent years. He knows that in order to dampen opposition within his own party, he must placate the westward-looking economists, who lament the central decision making that has succeeded mostly in leaving Hungary in debt and its people clamoring for a better life...
Died. Thomas S. Lament, 68, retired vice chairman of the board of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and one of the last links with the freewheeling Morgan era of U.S. banking; after open-heart surgery; in Manhattan. The son of one of Morgan's closest associates, Lament went to work for J. P. Morgan & Co. in 1922, becoming a director and vice president in 1940, was prominent in the 1959 merger with the Guaranty Trust Co. to form the nation's fourth largest bank (current assets: $7.6 billion), then retired in 1964 to the somewhat less rigorous life...
HAYDN: THREE QUARTETS, OPUS 54 (Epic). The Juilliard String Quartet once again displays its unsurpassed exactness of intonation and joint attack as it makes each quartet a finely chiseled gem-all without sacrificing warmth or passion, as in the C Major Adagio, with its deep-voiced Hungarian lament under the dancing arabesques of the violin...