Word: laments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...principle behind a legal defense based on civil liberty is often illustrated by the famous lament of a Dachau prisoner: "They came first for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew." And so on, through the trade unionists and the Catholics, until, "Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak...
...television violence is an important cause of real violence in America are legion, and fairly obvious. Somali children gleefully fire grenades at clan rivals, while Bosnians and Serbs rape and kill each other, all without encouragement from television. Homo homini lupus--"man is a wolf to man"--was Plautus' lament long before NYPD Blue...
...people at Harvard about my experiences in a racially divided public high school in Southern Illinois they are quick to condemn such racism. Upon hearing about the gas attendant in a small town who stared at me like I was green instead of brown, some people laugh and others lament the fact that "things have not changed" in rural America. But while my friends show sympathy, they are quick to point out that I'm now safe in tolerant, civilized New England...
...bridge of sighs has seen more to lament than the Stari Most spanning the Neretva River in historic Mostar. Last week, as a precarious cease-fire held in central Bosnia, the bridge, festooned with old automobile tires in a gallant attempt to protect it from the ravages of shell and mortar fire, stood in testimony to the most fervent hope of the trapped citizens of this shattered town -- that somehow the yawning gap between war and peace can be bridged and life allowed to resume again...
...return to "pure" comedy his critics have urged on him -- he seems to have a little more on his mind than updating The Thin Man. For one thing, Double Indemnity, which he quotes directly and indirectly. For another, the classic New Yorker's ambivalence about neighbors; the Liptons lament not knowing the folks they see on the elevator, but they live in fear of being drawn into boring, alien lives...