Word: lamentive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an all-time high (15,616) in the number of contributors, the Harvard Fund was up $8,000 from 1950 and was second only to 1948's dollar total of $544,000 given during the last year of a special drive to endow Lament Library...
...called by Carl Sandburg the U.S.'s "classical gutter song." There are upward of 300 versions of Frankie and Johnnie, and no one knows just when & where it began. Frankie Baker, a young tart in St. Louis' Negro district in 1899, was sure she inspired the lament. When her man (Albert Britt) two-timed her, Frankie tongue-lashed him; when he pulled a knife on her, she shot him dead. Tried for murder, she was acquitted because she killed in self-defense. People on the streets began singing the ballad of Frankie at her, and they kept singing...
...barefooted for a publicity picture. But Nick also had the squad's best scholastic record and liked to listen by the hour to classical operatic recordings. Planing to and from games, he would entertain his teammates by braying in a gravelly baritone the brokenhearted clown's famous lament from I Pagliacci...
...well with American universities, according to the latest issue of New Republic, out this week. The magazine has devoted a 14-page section to chronicling the woes of our institutions of higher education through an introductory lament and seven cogent, generally well-document complaints...
...North Africa." At the top of another page is a string of photos labeled "Dear to the Hearts of Left-wingers are these controversial figures." Here we find composer Aaron Copland, "recently appointed to a choice chair at Harvard"--and Owen Lattimore, "stung by accusations, he wrote a whimpering lament." The editors of "American Legion" add that this article "Makes the Harvards look ingenuous." It may at that, but only by comparison...