Word: lamentive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LAMENT FOR FOUR VIRGINS (368 pp.)-Lael Tucker-Random House...
...first part of Lament for Four Virgins is a tongue-in-cheek report of what happens when one defenseless minister is besieged by four determined virgins, backed up by four determined mothers. Herself the daughter of a Southern Episcopal minister, Novelist Tucker knows the social labyrinths of the South inside out, and better still, how to get them down on paper. She sketches some neat satiric passages on the relations between clergymen and vestrymen, and plots the maneuvers of her matrons with the skill of an experienced admiral arranging a fleet for battle. None of Novelist Tucker's girls...
...years gone by, Lament, in spring, would flaunt its air conditioning...
...singers mix up the rest of the program, depending on the composition of the audience. Even individual songs vary with the audience. The last song of a lover's lament called "Vera", for example...
...answer to your lament over the demise of "Birth of a Nation" may I say that it deserved to die? All of these things are matters of degree as Justice Douglas pointed out in the "released-time" decision. Now while I am with you all the way in the cases of "Oliver-Twist," "Devil in the Flesh," and "The Miracle," I think that the film you mourn goes far south of that borderline which divides mere bad taste from bigotry and race hatred. Each case should be decided on its particular merits. "Birth of a Nation" has few. At least...