Word: careworn
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...bookshops on earth. Her name is Winifred Bundy, and her establishment is called the Singing Wind. You go north out of Benson on the Ocotillo Road, cross the train tracks and proceed 2 1/4 miles across a cattle guard to the shot-up mailbox -- SINGING WIND, it says, a careworn advertisement that is easy to miss -- where you hang a right on dirt, continue a quarter of a mile, open a gate, close it behind you and continue another quarter of a mile past horses, cows and a pair of feuding cats. The trail pays out at the ranch house...
...took place in Seifert's book-lined living room, where the mementos of a long life include a bust of one of his few heroes, Tomas Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first President. Seifert is a small man with questing eyes, his white hair brushed straight back from a careworn face. Speaking through an interpreter, he reflected quietly on his art and his times. Excerpts...
...loneliness of a largely unoccupied dug out; the careworn faces of the managers; the vast summer skies that arch over the diamond, shading imperceptibly to dusk behind the light towers. Baseball, as The New Yorker's Roger Angell notes in his graceful text, is not as fast a game as television coverage makes it seem. With its qualities of silence and waiting, it "invites us really to go slow, for a change, almost to stop, in order to reflect on what is before us and what is to come." So does this clothbound hall of fame...
David Hartman, ABC'S Mr. Aw Shucks, an ex-TV actor (Lucas Tanner) with the gentle smile and careworn countenance of a kindly uncle...
...Brady and His World by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. (Time-Life Books; 304 pages; $19.95). Using the massive collection of Brady material gathered by the late Frederick Hill Meserve, the editors assemble Brady's portraits of the great (including several haunting shots of a careworn Lincoln), of luminaries from the worlds of politics, literature and the theater, and of such strange creatures as Tom Thumb (an enchanting series documents the famous midget's wedding) and Siamese Twins Chang and Eng. Brady's crystalline landscape shots capture the building of monuments in Washington...