Word: lamentably
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White is at his best in the bitter lament, Strange Fruit, with the power that only this type of singing can achieve. The room is dark except for the lone spotlight which shines from above. The audience is quiet with an intense silence. White finishes the song, the spot goes out, and there is no movement for almost a minute. And then applause...
...three poems suffer from the traditional esoterism of Advocate verse. The stark emotion George Kelly tries to get across in "Lament" bogs down in stilted verbiage, and Robert Layzer's "Absence" so snares itself in its own vague analogies that it drifts into incomprehensibility. "Southwest," by Charles Neuhauser, is better, particularly for the crisp language used to describe a desert tourist town...
...from the talk in the cloakrooms, Joe Farrington knows the odds are against him again this time. Far worse, the talk in the cloakrooms is the quid pro quo talk of politics, e.g., if Hawaii is Republican, then we should let in Democratic Alaska. Joe Farrington's lament is provoked by the fact that nobody is asking the only question that matters: "What kind of place is Hawaii in the year...
...from the forests nearby, Elizabeth greeted her mother and sister quietly, kissed her children and then went to the second-floor room where her father's body lay. At sundown,* a cortege of George's woodsmen and gamekeepers, headed by a kilted pipe-major playing a Scottish lament, wheeled the bier to the parish church, where the King's body lay in state for two days before being taken to London's 12th century Westminster Hall, adjoining the House of Commons.† Across the meadows and through the woods went the soft lament of the bagpipes...
With an all-time high (15,616) in the number of contributors, the Harvard Fund was up $8,000 from 1950 and was second only to 1948's dollar total of $544,000 given during the last year of a special drive to endow Lament Library...