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Apathetic Country. The Bishop's Bonfire, he said, "is a play about the ferocious chastity of the Irish, a lament for the condition of Ireland, which is an apathetic country now, losing all her energy, enthusiasm and resolution. The country is just drifting, with the lowest birth and marriage rates in the world...
...same poll, Union Committee tabulations indicated that freshman would use extended bears in Lament most often on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night, has the Committee has not tabulated the order of preference...
Sophiatowners watched, knowing that soon it would be their turn, too. And as they watched, they sang a new lament, known as the Toby Street Blues...
Italy and South Africa were unhappy about subsidized export of U.S. oranges; Thailand and Burma objected to rice dumping. From. Spain came a lament about the distribution of free American milk to poor children. Spanish dairymen insisted that the U.S. largesse was having a ruinous effect on their business; milk purchases in Valencia...
...Corliss Lament's macabre ritual [TIME, Nov. 22] is fine for a dead dog but hardly befits a human being who has an immortal soul. If even atheists "have a hankering for music and a few well chosen words," it is not unthinkable that in the terrible moment of suspension between life and death, they might also have a hankering for a Reality that is wider than music and higher than Santayana's quiet despair. It would be an injustice . . . to force upon them the inhumanity of "A Humanist Funeral Service." They will get a much more sympathetic...