Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considering taking a poll in Lament this week. "The poll would only make more definitive what we consider a strong negative reaction," Goldfarb said...
...bludgeon of agonized revelation but the pinch of a grown-up undergrad. He served up Peace Corps Sally in the same spirit that he offered conversation at Radcliffe, breaking the white tablecloth and candlelight quiet of the dinner by singing, "I would have let him see me naked," a lament from his dramatization of The One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding. "This girl's boyfriend goes to a brothel," Kopit happily explained, "and she sings this song describing what she would have done for him. It's got violins and everything." After that he turned to the dorm's head resident...
...common to hear the lament that the poor, who can least afford chil dren, have the greatest number," said the Rev. Eldon Durham, 53, pastor for the past 15 years of St. Mark's Presbyterian Church in the city of Lomita in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. "Repeatedly, the Pope is held responsible for encouraging large families among Roman Catholics. It is 'said that the Chinese and the people of India ought to put the lid on their burgeoning populations." Then Durham, the father of four, preached a modest proposal for Presbyterians...
...Typical Lament. Perhaps because they are so busy applying practical knowledge, few of the millionaires have any time for religion. Clergymen report that only the Catholics among the new millionaires remain close to their church. Says Hal Prince: "I gave up thinking about religion long ago-I couldn't dope it out." The millionaires also have an extremely high divorce rate. Typical is the lament of Del Coleman, 40, a tavernkeeper's son who bought and sold a succession of sickly companies and gained control of Chicago's Seeburg Corp. (jukeboxes and vending machines). Says Coleman, whose...
Miss Kael proposed Marlon Brando's career as a thermometer to the general decline of our film industry. His "On the Waterfront" lament "Oh, Chollie I cudda had class! I cudda binna contenda!" she called "The Great American Lament." She feels that his recent career has mocked this early promise as a tragic hero...