Word: elegiacally
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...BALTIMORE's script holds a scarcely concealed elegiac tone, accentuated by the date of the action: Memorial Day, 1972. Wilson's cast of losers looks nostalgically at the trains that pass through nearby Union Station, but they live in a world that doesn't care about the past, that churns up the present and those who live in it, and then spits them out, forgotten. It's the old Cuckoo's Nest Syndrome; the inmates at the Hot I know what's going on, but no one is listening...
...whites get established in the inhospitable vastness. After 20 years, the work was done. In 1889 the troopers mounted up and rode away from Fort Concho for the last time, while the regimental band played The Girl I Left Behind Me. Four years later, Frederick Jackson Turner proclaimed his elegiac thesis that the frontier, the decisive molding influence of the American character, was gone...
...wounds we suffered in the sixties, films that have to discover every Lost Generation that wanted to stay Lost. Heart Beat tries to take us back to Haight Street and Greenwich Village, to throw color on the black and white legend of Jack Kerouac, to show us in elegiac tones where we came from and to tell us in loud whispers where we can still go. It's time, Hollywood says, for us to see the truth about Kerouac and the Cassadys...
...Fourth of July speech today is seldom the shapely purple cloud of bombast that it once was. That style is nearly extinct. The old eagle-screaming rhapsody, the Everlasting Yea, survives mostly in wistful, or merely empty, references to Jefferson, in Smithsonian pageants or in the elegiac drone of a speaker recalling something that happened a long, long time ago, almost in another country...
...play's conceit is that Remington has invited the audience to be his guests in his home in New Rochelle, N.Y., in 1902. Remington is middleaged, but one can sniff gunpowder in his temperament. Remington (played with granitic force by Michael Kevin) begins on an elegiac note. He recalls sitting beside a wintry campfire and hearing a gnarled veteran of the receding frontier say: "In a few years, the railroad will come all along the Yellowstone ... the wild riders and the vacant lands are about to vanish forever " But for a boy of 19, there were plenty of adventures...