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...None of this is painful. On the contrary, it is convenient ... It would be senseless to bewail this state of affairs. Only one thing counts: How can we get out of it? One thing alone is certain: if public opinion understood what goes on, it would react violently. Apathy is not in the nature of the country. It is the result of lies . . . Since March 1945 not a single minister has resigned because he is refused the means to pursue the policy which he believes necessary. Not a single spontaneous resignation in a France eaten away by lies and collusion...
...turned over again and tried to squeeze under what was apparently a blanket. There was something wrong with that last idea. Celebrate the imminence of the Princeton game. Of course; celebrate was the square peg. Deplore, bemoan, he thought, bewail but do not celebrate...
...wells (where Professor Broneer found them more than 2,000 years later). But the riotous spirit of Corinth survived. In 60 A.D., St. Paul reproved his little flock at Corinth (II Corinthians 12:20, 21): "For I fear," wrote St. Paul wearily, "lest, when I come . . . I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed...
...every commencement speaker knows, the sure-fire approach is to bewail the failure of your own generation, and then in ringing tones challenge the next one to do better. Few speakers have more tellingly indicted the old or more specifically counseled the new than Atomic Energy Boss David Lilienthal, addressing the University of Virginia's graduating class last week. Said...
...falling, cutout black figure of Icarus looks as if it might have been snipped out by a child, until the onlooker comes to sense the impotent hooked flapping of the unwinged arms. The lumpish, drooping legs bewail their mid-air uselessness; the head hangs horrified over the void. By its very color, the body mourns its own impending death, which the red beating heart denies...