Word: lamentable
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Nettie Moore The name comes from a slave song, a lament for the singer’s woman who has been sold and gone off to New Orleans with her new master. The song is reminiscent of “L&T’s” “Sugar Baby,” which was much darker and maybe my favorite from that album, with a great acoustic version Dylan did in his Harvard concert Nov. 21, 2004. He throws in a sly Dylan comment on Dylan scholarship: “Well, the world of research has gone...
...Coward standard. "Will You?", the pretty ballad that closes the first act, takes its tonic cue from the 1936 Brown and Freed "Would You" that was introduced in San Francisco and reprised in Singin' in the Rain. The first few bars, and the whole mood, of Little Edie's lament "Daddy's Girl," are a direct lift from Sondheim's Follies song "In Buddy's Eyes." Little Edie's second-act fashion statement, "The Revolutionary Costume for Today," is another Sondheimlich maneuver (that's David Zippel's pun, for praise or blame, not mine); and Big Edie's "The Cake...
...forward. From Indiana Republican Mike Pence and others vying for leadership in the next Congress to presidential contenders such as John McCain or even Rudy Giuliani, the message they took from the election is the party needs to return its roots. And as Democratic strategists often privately lament, Republicans can easily describe their party's principles, even if they don't always live up to them: small government, low taxes, strong national defense, and moral values...
...nation’s conception of equality—and it’s the duty of the courts to uphold those rights when a legislature fails to. While we are unequivocally glad that the New Jersey Court unanimously agreed on the equality of rights, we cannot help but lament its refusal to make same-sex marriage equal in both name and content. Its decision to defer to the legislature on the question of nomenclature threatens to undermine the minority whom it is the judiciary’s obligation to protect. This decision is especially unfortunate as there have already...
Diarrheal diseases are the second leading killer of young children in developing countries. Our report on their treatment led readers to lament the lack of clean water, as well as the world's overpopulation...