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...Lament's Lament...
Highlights from Lamont's lament...
...customary to begin any criticism of a college production with a lament about the difficulty of the row which the cast has chosen to hoe. There seems always to be abundant sympathy of the actors who struggle manfully with their chosen play and at the last succumb, done in by their own ambitions. In selecting School for Scandal for its first production this season, the Harvard Dramatic Club has wisely stifled its ambitions. School for Scandal is not a taxing play, for even when done with mediocrity, it is funny. When it is enhanced with production and acting genius...
...Adelaide's Lament in Guys and Dolls sings of "psychosomatic symptoms difficult to endure" ("In other words, just from waiting around for that plain little band of gold / A person can develop a cold"). But Manhattan's Dr. Bret Ratner disagrees with Adelaide. The psychosomatic approach to allergies, he complains, has become so popular that the family doctor has a hard time deciding whether to refer cases to a psychiatrist or an allergist. Allergist Ratner plumps for the allergist. Says he: "If the psychiatric factors are treated exclusively, there can be little hope for lasting help...
...most West Germans, the struggle back to prosperity has been a dramatic success, though for all of them it was grim. Along the way, many despaired and died without lament. Two good new books on Germany, one fact, the other fiction, lament those Germans who went to the wall. The books share a common theme: courage and tragedy...