Word: plainting
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...entire family was killed off by sausage poisoning. But it does not take much imagination to see in Mahood (Manhood?) Author Beckett's savage symbol for mankind. Beckett's great strength is to make his readers uneasy. Like all Beckettmen, Mahood echoes the old existentialist plaint that he did not ask to be born and that life's mess is not of his making. Despairingly he sums up his and Beckett's arid philosophy: "I'm mute, what do they want, what have I done to them, what have I done to God, what have...
...Where the hipster is asocial-society's Underground Man-the Angry Young Man is eager to belong, feeling as he does that the welfare state has given him the credentials of a gentleman without the cash to be one. George Scott, a young Tory by conversion, puts this plaint best in a section of his autobiography Time and Place: "And so here we are, with our degrees and our posh education, our prideful positions in the public service, our ambitious names in print, trying to get on with the work brought home in the bulging briefcase, while the baby...
This brown taste is not sympathy for Williams; he probably could not care less, nor is it the tragic despair of feeling injustice unpunished. It is a plaint against irrationality, and against the things that make it possible to choose Mantle the most valuable player...
This is more than an echo of Joyce, it is a statement of O'Faolain's own grievances; while this plaint may induce sympathy for both of them, it is also an indication why O'Faolain is a sorry critic of alien literature...
...women, the changes have been exhilarating and bewildering, but Japanese men often think things have gone too far; last week many of them were pondering the plaint of a 42-year-old white-collar worker with an equal-rights problem of his own. Said he in a letter to Tokyo's Yomiuri Shimbun...