Word: lamentably
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Above all, Lehrer is a satirist, and his greatest talent lies in parodying the conventional run of popular numbers. He tweaks the sentimental home town, commemorating the kindly school master who sells French postal cards after class, and then jibes at the Irish Ballad, the love song, and cowboys' lament...
Seven students will take the first final exams of the year in tuxedos tonight as the annual colloquium of English Q, the College's discusses "The Challenge of Our Times." The colloquium will take place at the Lament Forum Room...
...then they will be such not to any ethnic or religious group, but to their country. Why, it is as silly to refer to Paul Robeson as a "traitor to the good name of the American Negro" as it would be to refer to Frederick Vanderbilt Field or Corliss Lament as "traitors to the good name of the American Anglo-Saxon...
...from ever fully scaling the literary heights-was his inability to feel deeply. He once said if he had to choose between the collected works of Shakespeare and Roget's Thesaurus, "I would let Billy go, upon my word." He could write perceptively, but he had to lament, while trying to write about love: "I have never been in love. Sometimes the tears start to my eyes, but they never fall...
What the Met audience heard was Stravinsky gone autumnal. The music began with a brass fanfare in antique vein, worked its often dissonant way through a series of style movements reminiscent of Handel, Mozart and, occasionally, subdued Verdi. It had uncharacteristic lyrical moments, e.g., Tenor Eugene Conley's lament in the brothel scene and Hilde Gueden's pretty love song in the garden, and jabs of vulgar humor in Blanche Thebom's bearded-lady scenes. But it never found anything to get excited about, and rarely attempted to follow an idea very...