Word: woe
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...cavalry of woe...
...biggest qualification to the Crimson's tale of woe this season is the performance of freshman pitcher Larry Brown, the victim of the Jumbo uprising and recipient of his first loss of the year (he's now 3-1) in the game. But Brown was hardly tagged very hard, as revealed by the statistics for the big Tufts rally in the fourth inning: four runs...
...artifacts of western literature. We learned from fragments of papyrus discovered in the early 1940's by the archeologist, Ichbin Scheissmann, and now known as the Lead Sea Scrolls. Inside one of these withered "Blue Scrolls" (as Scheissmann calls them) one of the ancient scribes tells a tale of woe: previous to his writing in his blue scroll he had been forced to write scroll after scroll and read even more than that, all in a period of two weeks. The poor fellow threatens suicide because he wasn't prepared to write in the blue scroll...
...Emperor of Atlantis resembles another expressionist work, Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins, but it goes beyond Weill's elegant cynicism. The final chorale, describing death as part of life's "delight and woe," is sung to A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, while the orchestra counters with a cabaret tune of incredibly sweet pathos. From this juxtaposition emerges a requiem for a civilization literally going up in smoke, but the hymn's chords reassert the promise of redemptive life...
Then, blow for blow and woe for woe...