Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Verdi Requiem." The bells tolling for the dead in one segment of the Mass were echoed by Owen's line, "What passing-bells for these who die like cattle," while the distant menace of battle was evoked by the orchestra's strident tuba fanfare. A Latin lament sung by U.S. Soprano Ella Lee, was the refrain for the verses...
...Arab quarter of Oran, barefoot youngsters last week piped a bitter lament learned from their parents: "We fought for independence, we won it, we lost it two months later." In Algeria's fifth month of nationhood, their chant had almost become a national anthem...
...Bertolt Brecht. In a music-hall saturnalia of honky-tonk pianos, white masks and silent movie captions, the late great German playwright fashioned a prophetically dramatic exercise in brainwashing. "One man is no man," comments Playwright Brecht in this mocking, 20th century lament for the death of the individual...
Almost every year around this time, the U.S. balance of payments problem gets to be like the old Brooklyn Dodger lament: wait till next year. Last year the Kennedy Administration trumpeted that it would bring the nation's international payments into balance during 1963. Last week, acknowledging that it had been overoptimistic, the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. overseas deficit widened in this year's third quarter (see chart), would probably wind up at more than $2 billion for the whole year...
...Grido is the rough draft of a masterpiece. In it Michelangelo Antonioni mines and examines the material that he later elaborated in L'Avventura, his sublime lament for the living dead...