Word: lamentations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-known lawyer in Philadelphia for many years with extensive experience in trial advocacy. I read with jaundiced eye the flatulent lament of President Derek Bok as reported to Time Magazine. As any experienced lawyer knows particularly a trial lawyer, the individual and the small businessman has the greatest need of dedicated professional service when matters come into litigation Large, multinational corporations, large public corporations, organs of government, labor unions and other powerful business, government and service organizations and corporations, have untold resources with which to employ qualified legal counsel and professional public opinion manipulators. The individual's sole resource...
Thania Pappas plays a solid Miss Adelaide, Nathan's finance of 14 years, and in another cast would garner high praise. She does well on her solo "Adelaide's Lament," and it is only when she shares the stage with Hughes that her charm begins to fads. The Hot Box chorus line suffers a similar fate. Their adequate cabaret numbers get lost in the shadows of the splendid acting...
That bit of doggerel is the opening stanza of a poem written by Mani Said al Oteiba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates, to commemorate the marathon twelve-day meeting in London of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries that ended last week. The minister's lament reflected the mood of desperation that led OPEC to slash its official bench-mark price from $34 per bbl. to $29, the first cut in the group's 23-year history...
...might-have-beens" connected with such anticlimaxes as the unsuccessful assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944, the Berlin Blockade of 1948, the soon vanquished East German uprising of June 17, 1953, even the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 However much we may lament or applaud the eventual denouement of these prospectively momentous watersheds, they did turn out somehow to be arrested turning points, fizzles on the stage of long-term historical developments...
Even if glimpsed only for a moment above a surging crowd as an instant, solitary figure in white, the Pope wanted to let the faithful know by his presence that he was moved by the grinding poverty and political oppression of the region. He had heard "the heart-rending lament rising from these lands," where over the past five years, civil strife has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people, most of them bystanders in the struggle between left and right. Indeed, the region's conflicts have reaped a grim harvest of martyrs and threatened to rend...