Word: bemoan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BROTHERLY Love Dept.: As much as we like to bemoan the lack of security on the Harvard campus, I doubt that any of us would like to see Harvard adopt the measures currently employed at the University of Pennsylvania...
...retaliation for the U.S. bombing of Libya in April persuaded most of the few remaining Westerners to leave. Explains George Miller, a professor at American University of Beirut, who has lived in Lebanon for 40 years: "We stayed until there was no longer any hope." Those who remain behind bemoan the university's deteriorating academic standards and the lawlessness of campus life. "We've had students demand better grades at gunpoint," laments a Lebanese professor...
...could bemoan the loss of a man who is smart and ambitious enough to be President, a man who could only fall prey to his slight stature, his high-pitched voice, and a deadpan wit that would make him the hit of a Harvard party but an ass in Austin...
...qualified to be Vice President? Ferraro is the first to admit that she is being considered mainly because of her gender, not her qualifications. But she adds, "If I weren't capable of doing the job, I wouldn't be talked about." Naysayers bemoan her lack of expertise in arms control and foreign policy. Ferraro feels the Budget Committee has been a crash course on the economy ("I can debate that with anyone"), and working on the Democratic platform has refined her views on other domestic issues. A trip this year to Central America produced strong doubts about...
...publicly stated wish to be intellectually independent of the magazine's backers, the Mac Arthur Foundation, lead to a series of publicized run-ins with John MacArthur. Harper's President and Publisher Mac Arthur was looking "for a more Saturday Review-type audience, small-town school teachers who bemoan the fact that nobody writes letters anymore, says a former Harper's writer, Timothy Noah '80. Kinsley left last summer and moved to Washington to become a senior editor at The New Republic...