Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forlorn but dignified, the Plaza Hotel faced the mob. All morning long the radio had been urging every potential truant in New York to show up at 59th Street and Fifth. ("The Beatles are now over Newfoundland; touchdown minus 71 minutes on our Beatles Countdown.") By two o'clock there were 3,000 girl teenagers, 1,000 boy teenagers, and 13 press agents...
Beckett's champions argue that his threnodies in dusky twilight represent the existential metaphor of the human condition, that the thin but unwavering voices of his forlorn characters speak the ultimate statement of affirmation, if only because the merest attempt at communication is itself affirmation. His crit ics believe that no literary bridge can be built on so shaky a foundation. Looking out across his bleak, windless landscapes, they see nothing but nihilism...
Defensive Winner. In that forlorn effort, the Arabs were not without friends. At the head of the list were Russia and the rest of the Soviet bloc, which would like nothing better than to keep the Middle East in chaos, prevent it from supplying oil to the West, and drive the U.S. completely out of the area. There were also the nonaligned states, which regard Nasser as one of their prophets. There was India, which never loses a chance to woo Arab support for its Kashmir dispute with Moslem Pakistan. And there were some Black African nations whose leaders feel...
Wars are littered with figures: troops employed, dead and wounded, planes shot down, trucks shot up. But the most important figures, and often the most tragic, are not limited to the forces of combat. In South Viet Nam, no other statistic speaks with more forlorn eloquence than this: out of every eight civilians, one is now a refugee...
...through the double set of doors and walks slowly down the Bick's wedding aisle. The scenery is great. Beneath one table an expanse of smooth pink thigh under a black mini-skirt. Off in the corner the inevitable lonely old man crouched over the Record-American, looking more forlorn for his old fashioned brown suit. A table of Negroes with conked hair and nail-head stovepipes. A bearded student reading The Mill on the Floss. Two gas station attendants just off the late shift. The whole crew...