Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destroy, the hard-won structures of our public life. Not unlike those who twenty years ago imagined and deeply hoped there was something to be said for McCarthy. Looked at candidly it seems to me we have contributed unwittingly to the disturbing and unwelcome evil we now lament...
Divorced. By Andre Previn, 41, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Broadway (Coco) composer, and father of Mia Farrow's twin sons: Dory Previn, 44, lyricist who recently recorded Beware of Young Girls in lament of Andre's departure: after ten years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles. Previn and Mia are presently in the wilds of Scotland, where, he says, they will be married, presumably as soon as he has signed the divorce papers and returned them to Los Angeles...
...keep broke them frequently for gain or spite. The Years of Triumph is not a first crack in Frost's lovingly fashioned public image. Before the poet's death, Randall Jarrell, writing with brilliance and flawless taste about Frost's best work, also took time to lament his "complacent wisdom and cast-iron whimsy" and poke fun at his platform personality-"the Only Genuine Robert Frost in Captivity." The first volume of Thompson's biography dealt with the powerful rages and resentments displayed by Frost early in life. Such faults seemed less shocking in a turbulent...
...destroy, the hardwon structures of our public life. Not unlike those who twenty years ago imagined and deeply hoped there was something to be said for McCarthy. Looked at candidly it seems to me we have contributed unwittingly to the disturbing and unwelcome evil we now lament...
...another reason with his Paul Principle:* "Individuals often become incompetent at a level at which they once performed quite adequately." The executive may feel, rightly or wrongly, that he is undereducated, that he cannot keep up with the complexities of modern business and the talents of younger executives. Typical lament: "I'm too old to learn about this...