Word: lamentations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lilo bounces about the Plaza's Persian Room in brief white tights, and sings La Vie with brassy triumph. But tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), frizzle-topped Edith Piaf wears a shapeless black silk dress and sings the tune (which she herself wrote twelve years ago) as a lament for everything that ever went wrong with love in Paris or anywhere else. Aging (43) Piaf seems hardly to have changed since she first appeared in Manhattan in 1947. Suave Vicky and wriggling Lilo only serve to set her off as what she is: the best torch singer...
...This lament in Varvara Karbouvskaya's Bondage indicates how tired Soviet writers must be of the girl-meets-boy, girl-loves-tractor school of fiction. The 18 stories collected in this book by Anthologist Kapp cover the years from 1934 to 1956, and many of them, particularly those written after Stalin's death, reflect an impatience with Communist society that is apt to surprise U.S. readers. In Yury Nagibin's The Night Guest, a feckless sponger is held in contempt by two zealous Soviet citizens, but not before one of them reflects sadly...
...contrapuntally against this is the inner lament of the thinker, persecuted because of his mental superiority: "Why is everybody always pickin' on me?" Even the intellectual, while inwardly tortured, must maintain a stoic facade, however; and the song offers an austere ethic...
...Trouper's lament...
...dancer, teacher and choreographer, who with Charles Weidman formed her own school and company in 1928 (opening what New York Times Critic John Martin soon called "a new chapter in American dancing"), creator of such modern dance masterpieces as The Shakers, With My Red Fires and (for Jose Limon) Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her active career was stopped by crippling arthritis in 1945, but Doris Humphrey went on teaching, organized the Juilliard Dance Theater in 1954. After ten years of preparation, Doris Humphrey's Guggenheim-financed book, The Art of Making Dances...