Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wright had hoped that the main light in the huge round gallery would come from the glass dome roof. Sweeney installed bright fluorescent lighting. He painted the walls a dazzling white ("Sweeney white-the color of death!" protested Wright), and to overcome the artists' lament that their paintings would look askew because of Wright's sloping "continuous floor." Sweeney devised an ingenious way of displaying his unframed canvases on rods projected from the walls. But for all his innovations, he could never get over the feeling that he was running not a museum but a monument to Wright...
...England's Glyndebourne Festival last week, Soprano Joan Sutherland, playing the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, rushed disheveled from the wings to shriek lamentations over the fallen body of her father. Restlessly roaming the house, her husband. Pianist Richard Bonynge. sweated out every note. He had his own lament: "We have as bad reputations as ballet dancers' mothers.'' He meant himself and all the other incarnations of that fabled musical folk figure, the opera diva's husband...
...moves into the second half of his campaign, Jack Kennedy starts off with what is undoubtedly the best press of any presidential candidate in modern history. Thus an old Democratic lament is finally laid to rest. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson all raised repeated charges, imagined or not, against "distortions" suffered at the hands of the so-called "one-party'' press. For "one party,'' everyone was supposed to read "Republican."' But since announcing his candidacy last January, Kennedy has not done much complaining about his press treatment...
...LAMENT FOR A CITY (371 pp.) - Henry Beetle Hough - Atheneum...
Couplets for Hector. Mani's most cherished art form is the miroloy, the dirge with which keening womenfolk usher the Maniot out of a harsh world that neither man nor God seemingly made. More a lament for a hero being taken to the underworld than for a Christian going to his reward-even as she makes the sign of the cross, the grieving widow will say, "Charon took him"-the miroloy mirrors in its 16-syllable line the lament of Andromache over the body of Hector. At graveside, the chief mourner's voice becomes a howl of hysteria...