Word: mournings
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...Shall mourn in vain the fact they were not here...
...deserved to die? All of these things are matters of degree as Justice Douglas pointed out in the "released-time" decision. Now while I am with you all the way in the cases of "Oliver-Twist," "Devil in the Flesh," and "The Miracle," I think that the film you mourn goes far south of that borderline which divides mere bad taste from bigotry and race hatred. Each case should be decided on its particular merits. "Birth of a Nation" has few. At least too few to justify its public showing in Boston...
...very thing he fought . . . This great satirist now gambols about his new-found Elysian fields along with the movie moguls and advertisers, caught up in the perfumed product of their own imagination and in the daily propitiating of the Great American Female . . . Those of us left behind can only mourn his memory and look for a new champion to replace the great Al Capp...
...real passion came not from Germany, which promises to pay some reparations, but from Israel, which wants redress but does not want the payments to be considered expiation. Many Israelis still carry concentration-camp numbers tattooed on their arms; almost all mourn murdered relatives. The prospect of sitting down with the Germans to discuss a financial settlement seemed degrading. But Israel, financially desperate and short of everything, could not even afford pride and sentiment. Opposition newspapers reprinted old photographs of naked, emaciated concentration-camp victims stacked, like cordwood, for burning, but there was little else...
...Britain. It is the subject of street corner talk, dinner table conversation, cocktail party repartee, and even political debate. The Conservatives have few compliments to pay the Festival because the Labor Government is behind the show. Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers snipe at the project whenever they can and already mourn for the several million pounds the exhibition is expected to lose. During the first week, the papers complained that the prices of food in the festival restaurants were prohibitively high for the working man. When the prices were lowered a bit the story rated bigger headlines and better position than...