Word: lamest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Munich Opera House has long rested much of its reputation on those two sturdy musical pillars, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss. Last week, as if to say that anything these two composed is worth audition, Munich opened its summer opera festival with two of the lamest and most persistently neglected of Mozart's and Strauss's works: Thames, King of Egypt, which Mozart composed at a precocious 17, and Der Friedenstag, written when Strauss was a world-weary...
...Administration cannot, for example, offer the lamest excuse for the Labor Department's extraordinary step of refusing to release this month's unemployment statistics until after the election was over. (Such statistics normally come out in November before the eighth.) Because they showed that last month's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was the highest since the '57-'58 recession, the figures were of obvious and vital relevance to the election. Yet they were withheld...