Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humiliating and terrorizing American diplomatic personnel will have become a symbol of U.S. weakness. On the battlefield of domestic politics, the past two weeks offer Jimmy Carter's bi-partisan legion of opponents an almost irresistible target for sniping. All a skillful stump speaker has to do is lament "the decline of American power and prestige," and his listeners will grit their teeth at the memory of Uncle Sam, a goat's skull for a head, burning in effigy in Tehran while the perpetrators, in a dramatic gesture of their discipline and outrageousness, collect trash in Old Glory...
...including a $2.5 million film-rights agreement last week. Now that the sex epic has climaxed, Talese wants to write about the sociology of baseball. "I'm a baseball addict," he confesses. "More of a sports fan than a sex fan." To be called Thy Wife's Lament, perhaps...
They are one, united in purpose. All congratulate each other on the wisdom of their foresight, and lament the ignorance and mundanity of the outside world. Oh, if only everyone knew what they know...
...lyrics of a new country-and-western ditty that has come out of Atlanta and was written by Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller. Miller's lament may never make the Top Forty, but a great many of his countrymen surely share his gloom about having to "do without." As in past times of leaping prices and deepening economic slump, Americans are taking seriously the task of cutting back their household budgets...
...symptom of national decline. As one troubled Londoner complained to TIME, many Britons "have been made to feel that they don't belong to their own country any more." A white lawyer, speaking about a visit to the capital's racially mixed Peckham area, expressed a common lament: "I felt completely alien. I felt pressure...