Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affair when Delia goes so far as to have a child by him. Mama's triumph is brief; short weeks later, Papa is pinned to death under a collapsing wall. As the keening women cluster about the open coffin, Paolino seems to hear in their voices a lament for his dead boyhood...
...fierce as he was fearless. His chief business was war, and no victory seemed quite complete unless his enemies could be slowly tortured to death before his eyes. The days of victory did not last forever. The king's scribes duly recorded Assurbanipal's thundering lament: "I did well unto god and man, to dead and living. Why have sickness, ill-health, misery and misfortune befallen...
...comedy. But the play, as it plunges over rapids in which both men and women are hurt, and virtue and vice are drowned, is kept between banks by an ironic tone and wit. By the end, the champagne seems more like Pernod, and the last word-a kind of lament for women by way of lashing out at men-goes significantly to the procuress...
This is another lament for the 20th century by the Spaniard who wrote Child of Our Time (TIME, Oct. 20, 1958). In that moving autobiographical novel, Author del Castillo charted a sad trail from the corpse-strewn streets of Madrid to the concentration camps of France and Germany, to something like inner peace at a Jesuit school back in Spain. Still only 26, and now living in Paris, he tries in The Disinherited to revisit the Spanish revolution, which flamed around him when he was a child. At this distance, memory is small help, and the tales of heroes...
...country, visiting universities and delivering talks that convinced bright young scientists that geophysics at Lamont would be far more interesting than in their own laboratories. To Lamont they flocked, as though following the Pied Piper. When they got to Lamont, they often found no money for their programs. Often, Lament's oceanographic ship, the elderly schooner Vema., sailed without enough money to carry her past her first port of call. As Vema headed into the Gulf Stream, Ewing's land-based aides would telephone frantically around the U.S. in search of money to buy fuel and stores...