Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether the Gaelic language can be preserved in modern times is questionable. Many Irishmen who support the movement fear that it will fail. "It seems a forlorn hope," says Professor O'Neill, "but then everything about Ireland was a forlorn hope...
Last week, haggard and forlorn, claiming that his health would be impaired if the hearings continued, Stonehill, 44, offered to leave the Philippines voluntarily−a move that would permit his eventual return. But Macapagal wanted no part of Stonehill now or in the future. At week's end he ordered his arrest and immediate deportation as an undesirable alien...
Then begins the soulless parade of empty months. One day, as Stroud paces around the prison yard in a scene so desolatingly forlorn that Dante might have pictured it as another circle of Hell, a cloudburst drops a baby sparrow at his feet. Stroud carries it to his cell, cradles it in a sock, nourishes it on ground-up cockroaches. Relatives of other prisoners start sending them canaries. Soon the entire isolation block is trilling, and convicts who get bored with their pets give them to Stroud to keep. With painstaking perfectionism, he fashions cages out of packing crates...
...have elected a mayor in Mobile, put the first two party members in the South Carolina legislature since Reconstruction, and sent Texas' John Tower to the U.S. Senate. Southern Republicans talk of doubling their number of Congressmen from seven to 14 this November, a hope that may prove forlorn. Clearly, the new breed has a long way to go. But at least and at last it has made a beginning...
...ruins the book is not that Nicholas has homosexual leanings, but that the author appears not to understand this. While the novel's plot winds improbably toward a reconciliation between Nicholas and the hungrily passionate Liliane, the friendship between the hero and Jeannot burns bright and true, a forlorn adult parody of the boyish attachment between the two prep-school friends of A Separate Peace. Least convincing is the character of Jeannot, who is so nearly canine in his simplehearted loyalty that the reader expects him momentarily to dash into a burning building and carry out a trapped child...