Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the Congressman can only point to the $50 billion to $60 billion deficit in this year's federal budget and lament, "The SBA loan fund is set up to help people cope with an unusual disaster-one that happens once in a lifetime. What has happened is that it has turned into a crop insurance program for agriculture...
Students tend to rate Marshfield an easy school. They teach you how to write in tenth grade, but then you don't get to exercise it enough," is an oft-heard lament; so is "They don t push you enough." Senior Brenda Steward is having no trouble fielding trigonometry, chemistry and British literature along with a 30-hour-a-week waitress job at a local restaurant called the Green Bandit. Says she: "Teachers don't assign homework; they don't believe in it." (The teachers' version, however, is that many students will not do homework when it is assigned.) Adds...
...just as de Tocqueville once mourned the demise of what he considered the idyllic, paternalistic system of feudal society in Europe, Jerry Jeff and all his friends sing a lament for the disappearance of small town society and Sunday church picnics...
...Texas Girl at the Funeral of her Father" is the only lament on the album. Newman pulls it off pretty well, despite the cheesy beginning, complete with violins. This song stands out because it is much slower than most of the other songs on the album and because the words and the music go together well...
...that no top-40 cheapie could approach. It is Daltrey's voice that reaches highs few other rock voices today could find; it is Daltrey's voice that exhibits the versatility and feeling two other tongues could carry. We've all heard Daltrey howl the Sally Simpson blues, the lament of Teenage Wastland, but the sounds of One of the Boys are both new and refreshing...