Word: laments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan dinner last week Professor Maurice Ewing, director of Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory, received the first $25,000 Vetle-sen Prize-for high achievement in the earth sciences (geology, seismology, oceanography, etc). From Columbia's onetime president, Dwight Eisenhower, came a message of congratulation; from assembled speakers came paeans of praise. But as the tributes converged on his rumpled head, Maurice Ewing, 53, most likely was thinking about a ridge in the floor of the Pacific which, according to one of his theories, should have a crack running along its peak...
SOFAR put Ewing in the oceanographic big time. He soon moved to Columbia to set up new courses in geophysics. In 1948 the widow of New York Financier Thomas W. Lament left to Columbia her magnificent Hudson River estate. Ewing and his staff moved in. What particularly took Ewing's eye was a spacious underground root cellar (30 ft. by 5° ft) cut in solid bedrock. During the Depression, according to the local story, the Lamonts had stocked it with food to carry them through an expected revolution. Ewing found it an ideal hideaway for his sensitive seismographs...
...Avenue gown come from different worlds, but the combination has a charm and grace of its own. In a ballad, she maintains the clean, classic phrasing of a church singer, she can be roguish in a West Indian ditty about a naughty flea, and she can make a chilling lament of A Warrior's Retreat Song-"Jikele maweni ndiyahamba/Jikele maweni indiyahamba," which she says suggests, "We've had it, we can't make it." Memory brings back the "Back of the Moon," a black saloon in Johannesburg, and life bounces suddenly to a bongo rhythm...
...Conservationist's Lament...