Word: laments
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...stroll onto stage was met with a deserved crescendo of shouting. But without a word he turned down the mood by launching into a slew of downers, from the old surreal folkie “Pay No Mind” to the new love lament, “Guess I’m Doing Fine.” Perched on a stool in a bland shirt and tie, Beck shunned the goofiness that waxed falsetto on Axl Rose and tossed out two-dollar quips during this summer’s solo tour. Instead, he seemed muted by the mature, dour...
...problem, many of these professors lament, is that the media is quick to attempt to turn professors’ arguments into soundbites. “The media want pundits, and they want pundits they can be sure of,” Bhabha says, arguing that some journalists aim to turn professors into “narrowly representative figures,” since it makes it easier for them to know who they can call for the liberal soundbite and who they can rely on for the conservative reaction. “There are times when [the media] stereotypes and simplifies...
...given Harvard’s wealth of genuine sports fans—people who sacrifice grades for the baseball playoffs and lament lack of SportsCenter in dorms—the empty seats that suggest that Harvard sports aren’t “the real thing” to their fans are a shame...
...pitfalls of a work like Winterreise is that too often it is performed as a single, unrelenting lament. The singer is so tortured that by the end, his meeting with a stone-faced organ grinder does not have nearly the chilling impact that it should. And while this work is all about excessive emotions, an excessive display can hurt its credibility. Van Dam never overplayed the Werther-like persona of the narrator. He avoided the indulgent self-pity that lends itself easily to the work. The cycle as a whole, while overwhelmingly dark, has moments of repose, fragmentary glimpses...
...Chavez is still a reminder of the late Nobel author Octavio Paz's lament that Latin America's revolutions are inevitably "squandered in violent agitation." His 1998 landslide election overthrew one of the world's most rotten political systems, but he seems incorrigibly wedded to a bellicose and autocratic style that many fear could eventually evolve into a left-wing dictatorship like Cuba's. Chavez recently threatened to seize businesses that close for whole days to protest his erratic government. His neighborhood organizations, the Bolivarian Circles, do aid the poor, but they sometimes morph into armed gangs like the ones...