Word: lamentations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long show was Bil and Cora Baird's 50 animal puppets, who achieved something rare-a fairy tale mixed with true gaiety, a child's world edged by real irony. That was the spirit, too, of Ogden Nash's lyrics, notably in the wolf's lament ("Aesop launched the slander/ I should have eaten Aesop") and his song of thanksgiving...
...London Daily Sketch (circ. 1,304,892), chronic boudoir skulker and chronicler of overcrowded love nests, the juicy tidbit was irresistible. For sale by Freelance Reporter Lee Benson: the ghosted lament of auburn-haired, toothsome Jane Buckingham, 23, on-and-off model and nightclub hostess, who declared that she had reigned in the heart of Prince Shiv of Palitana until dethroned fortnight ago by another of Shiv's girls, slinky Hungarian Actress Eva Bartok...
Judson Brown, 101, longtime secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, who was active until close to the century mark. And at that milestone, he was forward-looking enough to say: "I do not sympathize with the common lament that young people today are not what they used to be. Thank God they...
Pather Panchali-English translation: The Lament of the Path-tells a tragedy of family life in a small village. The family-every member of which is unforgettably portrayed in the most natural style imaginable-is Brahman. The father is a priest, a decent, impractical man, "bursting with ideas for plays" and poems" that he never publishes, making what money he can as a rent collector. The mother is a sensible, hard-working homemaker, warmhearted but hard pressed to make ends meet. It is difficult enough to keep the children, a schoolboy named Apu and a teen-age girl named Durga...
Wilder and Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes coat this slapstick with lavish layers of roguish dialogue. If Actress Booth blinks at the camera and confides, "Money is like manure-it's not worth anything unless it's spread around," Actor Ford is there a moment later to lament: "Oh for the days when women were sold for a few cows." Chief Clerk Tony Perkins, who seems to be trying to recapture Jimmy Stewart's lost youth, paws the ground and in that familiar marble-mouthed drawl reckons that he might try kissing a girl...