Word: lamentationes
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Once a Trotskyite. In the past, Macdonald was best known for his political commentary. After a youthful stint with FORTUNE and The Partisan Review, he started his own magazine, Politics, in 1944 and was its principal contributor. Once (briefly) a Trotskyite, he now proclaimed himself a philosophical anarchist and a...
The Bayton Art Institute, which is now showing a large exhibition of the long-overlooked school of Genoa, has been given paintings by the two best artists in the group-Cambiaso and Magnasco. In Detroit, Mrs. Edsel Ford gave to the Institute of Art a 15th century Flemish sculpture called...
In a rare departure from conventional political behavior, California's frisky Dalip Singh Sound, 62, turned sheepish (and turtle) over an enlargement of the federal payroll in his district. The occasion, in lamentation for which the India-born Democrat sportingly submitted to an initial symbolic shakedown: a beefing-up...
Mirsky's inordinate use of Yiddish words; his extraordinary stress on Jewish self-abasement, passivity, and lamentation in Twirckoff's response to crisis; his condescending attitude toward his protagonist; and the intrusion of a phony mystical hallucination at the end to get Twirckoff off the spiritual hook--all of these...
Unlike Maurice Maeterlinck, whose The Life of the Bee used the insects in part as a flight vehicle for his own soarings into the wild extramundane blue yonder, dedicated Beekeeper Crompton lets the bees buzz for themselves. He follows them, with cries of pride and lamentation, from their hexagonal cradles...