Word: lamentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing poetry and to his old subjects, as soon as he got back to Spain. Of course it is impossible to be entirely unaffected by two years' writing in such a different manner: Lorca could not have produced a passage like the Cuerpo Presento in Lament for the death of Sanch Mejullas before, and traces of the New York experience can be found in the tragedies, especially Blood Wedding, but by and large Lorca did take up the old forms again. Some critics in this country and in Europe, especially those still plugging for the surrealists, are loath to admit...
...story. Nor is showing this hopeless family man for a few years among his family very rewarding. Too much slighted is the George who was not always fat and fatuous, the sometime companion of Sheridan and Fox who adorned as well as tarnished a picturesque society. His maudlin lament, after Charlotte's death, that he can father no royal line, seems both needless and out of character in the father of Regent Street and Regent's Park, the Brighton Pavilion and Waterloo Place...
...LAMENT FOR A HARVARD MAN I HAVE LOVED...
Blood & Champagne. Lael Tucker, herself a reporter and novelist (Lament for Four Virgins), has told her story with literary skill, and much of it will hit home to readers who neither knew nor cared about Charlie Wertenbaker-the anxious visits to doctors, the peering at X rays, the struggle to live with the truth, the flight from France, where the Wertenbakers lived, to New York for an exploratory operation, the futilities of hospital routine in the face of a dead certainty. The operation only confirmed the death sentence and, unwilling to live as "less than a whole man," Wertenbaker collected...
Explained Musician Bernstein (TIME, Feb. 4) of Lonely Men: "A combination of lament and quasi-football march...