Word: piteous
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...grown in artistry, Glyndebourne has also grown socially. During its three-month season English bluebloods battle for tickets, and by midsummer the Times is running piteous appeals ("Two Glyndebourne tickets. Any opera. Any price. Any night.") Although formal dress is now "recommended" rather than required, the great majority of the audience turns up black-tied and bejeweled. In the 75-minute intermission between acts, the orchestra usually gathers to play croquet by the fading evening light while the audience sets up their folding tables on the lawn and dines from bulging wicker picnic baskets...
...system struck back last week. Having obtained the names of a few students who planned to study for exams, the Department of Buildings and Grounds moved swiftly: teams of painters were dispatched to the students' bathrooms. Despite piteous scenes as undergraduates, enfeebled by days of reading period, tried to defend their commodes, work began...
...throat-constricting, becomes anginal. The explosion has trapped the heroine (Dorothy Malone) beneath a steel frame too heavy to move. Only an acetylene torch can save her. Can the hero (Robert Stack), raging through the sinking ship, find a torch before the rising waters drown the heroine's piteous cries? No he can't; yes he can; no he can't. The Stones play on the moviegoer's pulse as though it were a set of bongos...
...songs suffer from a tone of despondent melancholy," declared he. "Under the guise of lyrics appear the cries of the weak man complaining of his own private life." After the meeting, one of Kabalevsky's colleagues, Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian, whose music is anything but self-piteous, winged to the U.S., looked like any tired businessman when he landed in New York City on his way to conduct some concerts in Havana...
...system struck back last week. Having obtained the names of a few students who planned to study for their exams, the Department of Buildings and Grounds moved swiftly: teams of painters were dispatched to the students' bathrooms. Despite piteous scenes as undergraduates, enfeebled by weeks of reading period, tried to defend their commodes, work began...