Word: bewailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christ-instituted sacrament; some Anglicans and Lutherans practice private confession, but most Protestant churches have a confession made by the entire congregation, generally at the beginning of their services. Although public and general, it is nevertheless quite specific, as in the Book of Common Prayer: "We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness...
Most Frenchmen would be delighted to have Brigitte Bardot as a neighbor, but dour fellow farmers in Orne, west of Paris, remain faithful to the stern old cult that holds: "Grazing and tilling are the two breasts of France." They call BB a cumulard, or land-grabber, and bewail the fact that in recent years the actress and 37 other wealthy city slickers−among them Movie ActorJean Gabin−have all staked out exurbanite estates in Orne. This has inflated land values (current price: up to $900 an acre) and displaced tenant farmers, who complain that they...
Despite his criticisms, Author Barzun insists that he is not condemning the age, only discerning its fate: "There is nothing to reprove and nothing to bewail." What he calls the total repudiation of Art, he concludes, must mean that "we may suppose the birth of a new consciousness neither far off nor unwelcome. Whatever the time, we have every reason now for believing our artists when they tell us that Art is dead...
...government provided) are restive and so is the growing commercial community, which includes a large number of Palestinian Arabs. They resent the sheiks' autocratic rule (nobody has a vote in Kuwait, and sheiks head all the government offices) and listen avidly to the inflammatory broadcasts from Cairo. They bewail the fact that membership in Nasser's "One Arab Nation" is still denied them. Declared one of the disgruntled: "How can we be happy when so many other Arabs are miserable...
...vain and impotent thing to bewail the dead, the Greek poet Stesichorus once admonished his readers. And no doubt it is; but perhaps some of that fabled $87 million still remains. And if it does, there may be some hope for a raising of the dead. Ah, gentlemen, make the most of what you may yet spend...