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Landry decided to apply a showman's standards to the great U.S. indoor amusement. His first "Showmanship Survey" in 1933, in which he gave U.S. stations strict ratings on local enterprise, resulted in gey sers of protest, including a four-page lament from NBC's then President Merlin Hall Aylesworth charging "commercial libel." Landry responded with two more surveys at six -month intervals, after which the survey became an annual event (TIME, Dec. 29). Landry's conclusion about...
...Traditional Mexican farewell song is the lament La Borrachita (The Little Drunkard), sung by Cuatitas Herrera on Decca...
...classicism. With a bare economy of notes, it builds up by means of polyphonic architecture to a climax of tremendous beauty, and with the final text "in pace," the souls of the righteous seem to float off into space and come eternally to rest in Abraham's bosom. The Lamentations of Jeremiah, an entirely different sort of thing, takes as its subject the Biblical account of the fall of Jerusalem, and achieves its effect of sustained grief by a certain pitched, calculated monotony. Now and then a sharper twist of phrase suggests the weeping and gnashing of teeth, sackcloth...
Phillips' Lament...
...personal friend of King Boris, I lament the loss of Wild Bill's wallet, but I resent the aspersion cast on the honor of my poor but honest countrymen...