Word: bemoan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many critics have been quick to look down their pedantic noses at Shakespeare's Merry Wives. They decry its lack of psychologic or philosophic depth; they bemoan its coarse language; they complain that almost none of it is in verse. Indeed the play is prose, but not prosaic. And the critics blame Shakespeare for not producing what he never had the slightest intention of producing. There is evidence that Queen Elizabeth I was so delighted with the character of Falstaff in the two parts of Henry IV that she commanded the writing of a play about Falstaff in love...
...them is Columnist Robert Ruark, who is respected by white hunters as one of the few sharpshooters among the amateurs. Currently on safari in Kenya, Ruark writes: "I should think it likely that this will be my last proper big safari, and the thought grieves me. What I bemoan mainly is the loss of the old, wild freedom when you could take off in almost any direction and find something exciting without having to check a sheaf of papers, fill out questionnaires and worry about your time limits in any one area. The people were wild and the animals were...
...told competently and plausibly in the simple, direct language of a veteran historical novelist (Jew Suss, Josephus). Both books reflect the intelligent spirit of the text that Author Feuchtwanger takes from Spinoza: "I have honestly endeavored not to laugh at the actions of men, nor to bemoan them, nor to abhor them, but to understand them...
EGYPT Under Pressure Though his enemies abroad are apt to bemoan that the Suez debacle has made Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser "stronger than ever," it did not look that way last week in Cairo. The exhilaration of Egypt's political victory, after military defeat by the British, French and Israelis, has ended. The country is settling back into a chilling swamp of unsolved problems. Nasser finds himself in need of pulling something out of his hat-something as spectacular as his Communist arms deal or his seizure of the canal company. But the rabbits left...
...qualified to analyze objectively the "relative importance or practicability" of the 14 educational goals listed in the White House Conference report [Dec. 19]? Naturally, Chemist Joel Henry Hildebrand insists that mathematics and science are the most important. Yet nothing is either practicable or important if never used. Those who bemoan declining registrations in high-school math and science courses should first survey the extent to which these subjects are subsequently used...