Word: sackclothed
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...second thought, ex-Critic Atkinson decided that sackcloth & ashes was not the proper wear for civilians: "There is no blame to be attached to New York's attitude toward the war. Circumstances have sheltered New York from the awful fury and the dullness of war." In effect, he confessed a journalistic failure, for he decided that an understanding of what war is like cannot be had by "taking the war news at polite second hand from the newspapers and radio. War cannot be understood vicariously. Only the men overseas can know what it is all about...
Today no man in the U.S. is more fanatical at laying down and arguing for New Deal policies. But somewhere up the ladder from young social worker to Presidential alter ego, Hopkins doffed the reformer's sackcloth, donned a sports jacket...
While Queen Bess and other principals hold the forestage, for instance, village supers clad in sackcloth creep among the trees, unable to make themselves heard through the wind as they chant: "Digging and delving, hedging and ditching, we pass. . . . Summer and winter, autumn and spring return. . . . All passes but we, all changes . . . but we remain forever the same. . . ." They remind you of Evelyn Waugh; yet in Mrs. Woolf's many-planed perspective they are also in truth the nameless human swarm...
...Lamentations of Jeremiah, an entirely different sort of thing, takes as its subject the Biblical account of the fall of Jerusalem, and achieves its effect of sustained grief by a certain pitched, calculated monotony. Now and then a sharper twist of phrase suggests the weeping and gnashing of teeth, sackcloth and ashes of the historical Jeremiah, but for the most part the rhapsodic wildness of the prophet does not break through the fabric of ritualistic lament. Emotion breaks through more strongly in a far more conventional piece, however, the Elegy of Dr. Arne, from the Apollonian Harmony...
...Sanskrit word for fibre is jhat. In the Indian province of Orissa a tall, reedlike plant called jhut has long been cultivated for its fibre, which is used in making sackcloth and twine. But the best place in India for jute growing is the neighboring province of Bengal, whose alluvial plains between the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers produce at least 85% of the world's crop. Last week while U. S. farmers were harvesting a bumper crop with combines (see p. 15), Bengali farmers with sickles were beginning to cut more than 2,000,000 acres of jute. When...