Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golden age. Looking back, the Oxford Vlnd Mayfair targets Waugh satirized in Viene '20s and '30s have largely vanished, Baking with them half the early novels' Viumor but leaving the rage intact. After World War II he suddenly turned eariest: Brideshead Revisited is a frankly logic lament for the passing of a golden youth and innocence. Most read mourned the change...
...soiled and weary woman who admits that men have come and gone in her life "like traffic through a tunnel." Typical of the show's erratic focus is Joe's response when he finally loses Lorna. He and the chorus launch not into a lover's lament but a rousing, anvil-hard hymn of civil righteousness: "I ain't bowin' down no more...
...LAMENT FOR THE MOLLY MAGUIRES by Arthur H. Lewis. 308 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...Right to Oppress. A standard lament of the left is that U.S. liberties are fast dwindling under the pressures of mass, conformist society. Roche, who has investigated early Americans, dissents. There was a greater diversity of communities in the past, he writes, but within the communities no diversity was tolerated. Wise Roman Catholics steered clear of Puritans, Puritans shunned Anglicans, and Mormons avoided everybody: "Colonial America was an open society dotted with closed enclaves, and one could settle in with his cobelievers in safety and comfort, and exercise the right of oppression...
...night, love, does your wife lament...