Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water, rising crime, complicated tax structures and shrinking recreational facilities. And it produced its prodigious array of social and economic legislation in spite of the tension and upheaval caused by a costly war. Indeed, the 89th went further than any other in modern times to exorcise the once-fashionable lament that Congress has become hopelessly incapable of tackling 20th century problems...
...destroys him. Ferdinand has journeyed from one trap to another, and the realization of this is deeply disturbing. "Pierrot Le Fou" is an extension of Godard's preoccupation with the importance of human values in a world of emotional and intellectual bankruptcy. Godard's pessimistic attitude indirectly makes his lament more powerful than in his previous films, and in "Pierrot," Godard is working on a larger scale than before...
With so perfect a stage, it is pointless to lament that the rest of the Met is slightly tacky. It would probably take the management twenty years to amass the funds and courage to make significant changes. The new generation that arises by that time will forgive the new Met as being quaint, just as we forgave the old Met for its idiosyncrasies...
...coax a few tears in remembrance. He has played 250 funerals so far, and the most cherished of his eulogies he has included in two of his anthologies. Who can ever forget what he said at Fanny Brice's bierside: "Now my hands fasten to my heart in lament for this all-too-soon exit from the scene. But the great Playwright of this ever-beginning, never-ending plot, the Master Director who so skillfully stages this tightly woven, disconnected spectacle of tragic nonsense, has planned it otherwise." Or at Jolson's (whom he disliked intensely...
Last week New York Federal District Judge Dudley B. Bonsai dismissed the charges against ten of the twelve. Among these were Texas Gulf President Claude Stephens, Executive Vice President Charles Fogarty, and Director Thomas S. Lament, a retired vice chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust. In an 81-page opinion, Judge Bonsai found that the ten had acted without intent to deceive or defraud anyone. Still standing are charges against Texas Gulf Secretary David Crawford and Richard Clayton, a geophysicist who had helped survey the Timmins ore area. When they bought Texas Gulf stock in April 1964, said the judge, they...