Word: lamentive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Amory was speaking his piece in Manhattan, the duke's secretary in London issued a stiff-upper-lipped statement: "Mr. Cleveland Amory . . . has now given all the assistance the duchess felt was of value, and his employment has therefore been terminated." Next day, when Amory's lament was gleefully spread by London's anti-Wally press, the duke's secretary announced less politely: "The Duchess of Windsor wishes it to be known that it was on the unanimous recommendation of the three publishers of her memoirs-namely [New York's] David McKay Co., McCall...
...displays a charming loquacity, a dawdling relentlessness. Helen must chatter and Hecuba sniff, and there are little vaudevilles on the difficulty of cursing well, little broadsides on a bard's-eye view of war. If in some sense a protest against war, the play is much more a lament for war's seeming inevitability. Like all masters of humane irony, all practitioners of philosophic high comedy, Giraudoux pierces to a tragic fundamental, to a world never long enough governed by logic, or spurred on by truth, or saved by virtue. His own dazzling speeches, moreover, ram home...
...night in 1764, all but 404 volumes of the 125-year-old library were destroyed by fire. In 1831, Librarian Benjamin Peirce complained that the library was so crowded that "many of the books . . . have been excluded from their proper places by the want of room." For years, the lament was the same, and even after Mrs. George D. Widener gave Harvard a vast new building in memory of her son, who went down on the Titanic, the space problem loomed again...
Conductor Hugh Ross turned to the Tanglewood Choir and gave an incisive downbeat. Moderate, mezzo forte crescendo, basses and then tenors intoned the first portentous words: "Who must file." Sixty young voices joined in the first performance of a modern madrigal called Lament for April 75. Its lyrics: excerpts from the U.S. income-tax instructions...
Memphians and tourists alike have deplored the change. Touring Comedian Danny Thomas added his lament to the rest. In Memphis he dashed off a song Bring Back Our Beale Street Blues, a couple of nights later sang it to 15,000 cheering Memphians. Mayor Frank Tobey took the hint, promptly presented an ordinance to the city commission. Next week, after the third official reading, Beale Avenue will once more become Beale Street...