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Comedy indicates a "different temperament" from tragedy, Bentley said. "It prefers only to hint at the serious side," while tragedy confronts pain directly, "taking terror by the hand." Comedy "veils its feelings with eloquencies, while tragedy is a "long lament...
Since people identify themselves with a hero, he said, pity is really "feeling sorry for oneself." Accordingly, he entitled one section of his speech "In praise of Self-Pity." "We don't lament in English," he said, and the phrase "O woe is me" is eliminated from translations of Greek dramas. 'But if we have dismissed self-pity from daily life, it remains in our night life. We still weep in our dreams...
Will You Love Me Tomorrow (The Shirelles; Scepter). A nighttime lament by a new female quartet that throbs its sentiments with rough tenderness. That "love light in your eyes'" may not survive the dawn, but it has booted the Shirelles to the top of the pop charts...
...western, a pseudosociological study of the American cowboy in the last, disgusting stages of obsolescence, a raucous ode to Reno and the horrors of divorce, a ponderous disquisition on man's inhumanity to man, woman and various other animals, an obtuse attempt to write sophisticated comedy, a woolly lament for the loss of innocence in American life and, above all, a glum, long (2 hr. 5 min.), fatuously embarrassing psychoanalysis of Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller and what went wrong with their famous marriage...
...curious legend still haunts me," wrote Heinrlch Heine of The Lorelei. It is a lament that might be echoed by anyone who wants to really understand what is going on around him in December 1960. Legend not only inspires artists and composers; it also on occasion illumines the news. Some legends at work last week...