Word: lamentations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feelings of suspicion and cynicism linger long after the many statistics are forgotten. Ironically, the editors seem to lament the lack of meaningful political debate in America, yet rely on mere numbers to make their points. Stalin once bragged that "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic." What does that make the 1159 statistics in the Harper's Index? The stuff of fun conversation, maybe, but also cause for alarm...
...commit hara- kiri now" but allowed that he could probably make do with some "psychiatric treatment." Even though the gift met the divinely ordained total that Roberts had announced, he continued his fast in the Prayer Tower and asked his flock for more cash. Roberts' performance caused Swaggart to lament, "The gospel of Jesus Christ has never sunk to such a level...
...Marti's lament is a common one among seniors now coming to the end of their labors and juniors about to start theirs. Some 60% of this spring's graduates will enroll in college, and though the choice of where to go is the culmination of twelve years of schoolwork, many will make the decision knowing little about the place they choose. They must sort through a choked mailbox of color brochures from student-hungry colleges, face down a blizzard of intimidating forms, and assess parental advice that is based either on no college experience or 20-year-old impressions...
...what will happen in this world if we have to die when we make love? AIDS is the century's evil." That lament, from a pop ballad that is sweeping west Africa, probably seems overdrawn to most Americans. Not so for Josephine Najingo, a 28-year-old mother of five who lives in the dusty Ugandan trading center of Kyotera, near the Tanzanian border. For her, the lyrics describe a bitter reality. Josephine is dying because she had sexual intercourse with her late husband. A prosperous trader, he had contracted "slim disease," a painful wasting away of body tissues...
...made a terrible noise that his laughing students likened to a "tubercular cough." He always dressed simply, allowed no jokes and demanded punctuality, but he was a popular teacher who never punished his charges. At the end of each lesson, the mild man in sandals generally delivered a brief lament for the corruption of their society...