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Word: lamentations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, entitled "Dedication," is a chorale; the other, "Lonely Men of Harvard," is termed by its authors a "lament-march." G. Wright Briggs Jr. '31, director of the Harvard Band, said that "Dedication" represented Bernstein in a musically elevated mood, whereas the other piece was "typically Broadway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bernstein, Lerner Collaboration Produces New Harvard Songs | 3/13/1957 | See Source »

...lament and march parts of "Lonely Men of Harvard" seem completely different at first glance, Briggs commented. He explained that their musically different moods were unified by Lerner's "tongue-in-cheek" lyrics, which gave the whole piece a whimsical cast. The verses in both parts emphasize Harvard's superiority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bernstein, Lerner Collaboration Produces New Harvard Songs | 3/13/1957 | See Source »

...some extent the music warmed up. Herbert Parsons as a proper professor was a charming satirist as he sang of the professor's duty to learn, not teach. As his lonely man, Duane Murner gave one of the few professional performances of the evening with "Section Man's Lament...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Drumbeats and Song | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

...Humphrey's office declined to go so far as to make RWBCLYIOU an official song. Nevertheless, one TV station played the song, and soon hundreds of amateur poets peppered the IRS with lively comments and suggestions. Sample, from a Joplin (Mo.) chiropractor and amateur musician, who wrote a lament to Tax Form 1040 (The One-O-Four-0 Blues) : "I fear that I'll be tardy/ In completing Form Ten Forty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The 1040 Blues | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...find out how much damage mankind should expect from strontium 90, one of the fallout isotopes, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission financed a study by Drs. J. Laurence Kulp, Walter R. Eckelmann and Arthur R. Schulert of Columbia's Lament Geological Observatory. Last week the team made a report in Science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man and Strontium 90 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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