Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third Man. Director Carol Reed's mood-saturated Graham Greene melodrama of black-market intrigue in a forlorn postwar Vienna (TIME...
...next few months Rhee proved far more of a catalyst than Hodge had bargained for, and not at all what the general had wanted. At the time of Rhee's return, 205 Korean political parties were registered with U.S. Military Government. Among them were the Forlorn Hope Society, the Supporters' Union for All Korean Political Actors, the Getting Ready Committee for the Return of the Provisional Korean Government and the Korean National Youth Movement, which called itself "the new Boy Scouts." ("The new Boy Scouts" soon had to be curbed as a menace to law & order...
...given it life. The theme, that there in an inner reality in an individual which can only be seen once his particular drama is recognized, is bandled with the skill befitting the work. All the tragedy, the anguish of incommunicability, is brought forth by the interplay between the forlorn characters and the befuddled actors...
...supporters of world-wide peace. Their adherents in this country wave peace pledges and petitions while Communist guns are killing American soldiers. It is to balk these double-tongued gentlemen, with whatever small means are at my disposal, that I have withdrawn my play. I do not wish the forlorn longings and illusions of 1935 to be used as ammunition for the killers...
Last week, 30 years and four weddings later, Untermeyer walked into a Manhattan courthouse in the forlorn hope of finding out which chains legally bound. Onetime Judge Esther Antin, 50, the fourth Mrs. Untermeyer,* had asked the court to declare her his legal wife. Now living with Wife No. 5, Fiction Editor (Seventeen) Bryna Ivens, 40, Untermeyer took the position that he was still doubly-wed to No. 1 (and No. 3), Jean Starr, since his Mexican divorce from her didn't really count. (Presumably, marriage and divorce with Poetess Virginia Moore, 46, wife No. 2, was legal.) Untermeyer...