Word: dolefullness
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This shallow breathing occurs during a doleful evening in which Clara and three other skinless neurotics are bullied in a desultory way by a thick-skinned fifth person, Clara's frightful mother Laura. The other characters are Clara's drunken stepfather; her uncle, an exhausted, ironical pederast; and...
Doleful G.O.P.
Died. Alastair Sim, 75, doleful-vis-aged British actor of stage and screen; of cancer; in London. During a marvelous 50 years of playing bedeviled headmasters, bungling sleuths and dotty bishops (he officiated at Peter O'Toole's wedding in The Ruling Class), Sim deftly dodged interviews. But...
Sloan Wilson reports in these amiable memoirs that in 1955, after the vast sales of his novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, tailors sought him out and begged him to accept, gratis, suits of fine gray flannel. Wilson's book had already confirmed what everybody knew-that...
Rabin's aim on his five-day visit was to link this doleful past with a more hopeful future. Yet even that future is unsettled, mainly because the relationship between Tel Aviv and Bonn appears to be changing. No European nation has closer ties with Israel than does the...