Word: lamentations
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...quality. It is human nature to imagine that our present reality is squalid, diminished, an ignominious comedown from better days when household appliances lasted and workers worked, and manners were exquisite and marriages endured, and wars were just, and honor mattered, and you could buy a decent tomato. The lament for vanished standards is an old art form: besieged gentility cringes, indignant and vulnerable, full of memories, before a present that behaves like Stanley Kowalski: crude, loud, upstart and stupid as a fist...
...walked out in the streets of La redo," goes the old cowboy lament. Residents of the Texas town (pop. 91,449) are now asking, "What streets?" Thanks to former officials who "mishandled" city funds, an astonishing 2,720 of Laredo's 5,400-odd blocks need paving at a cost of some $10,000 each. Another 2,000 blocks require resurfacing at $2,600 apiece. With little money available for such work, Mayor Aldo Tatangelo and City Councilman Felipe Sanchez decided to put the streets on the block...
Still, it is more convincing to lament to an audience than a mirror...
Party rhetoric does not differ markedly from earlier pronouncements and warnings. "The abyss" has existed every since the August 1980 strike in Gdansk's Lenin Shipyards; it is the abyss of freedom which has proved far too deep for the Soviet players and their pawns. We can only lament that a genuine labor movement with broad national support and an innovative program has been so blatantly repressed by a state supposedly dedicated to its workers...
...entire exercise is one that leaves me very cold indeed," said President Bok, referring to this damaging commercial spirit that taints the high-minded goals of higher education. And indeed Bok, as a leader of American education, has every right to lament last week's developments. But whether, as president of Harvard, the result of the vote--which pared the membership of Division I-A from 137 schools to less than 100-should worry himexcessively is another matter...