Word: lamentably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knife (by Clifford Odets; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is Odets' first play in seven years, and probably his poorest ever. A kind of savagely spluttering memoir of Hollywood, where Odets has spent most of those seven years, it is a lament for crushed ideals and identities, a screeching indictment of vicious methods and heartless men. Its anger is real; everything else about it is contrived...
...traditional four-measure bounds of the popular ballad. He can write gaily, in complicated rhythms (as in Anything Goes). He can match a pointedly off-color lyric with an insinuating tune (as in My Heart Belongs to Daddy). But the true Porter hallmark is cut in the bittersweet lament of What Is This Thing Called Love? and in the sultry, Latin fervor of Begin the Beguine, I've Got You Under My Skin, In the Still of the Night and Get Out of Town...
...Players today are not trained or prepared physically to go an entire game . . . and [thus] never reach the peak of physical condition. They're good passers, better catchers, and good kickers, but they lack stamina." Then he allowed himself a Senecan lament on mid-Century males in general: "It is my opinion that the youth of today, on or off the gridiron, is not trained for total responsibility as the youth of my earlier years...
...family jokes, jabbing aspects of the entertainment world that age has withered or custom staled. There is a lush spoof of a road-company opera that the unpaid musicians have walked out on; and opera done without music can be flayed without mercy. There is a tearful but cheerful lament by three washed-up queens of the silent films; above all, there is "The Gladiola Girl," a wonderfully funny, insanely accurate burlesque of a routine musical...
Seven, from the 42 candidates in the field, will be chosen in February. To try to join the select seven, Louis Lament and Roger Hunt staged a jazz concert, and the friends of John "Swami" Morey staged a self-styled "Hindu riot...