Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nameless and faceless multitudes of GUERRILLA, being avid consumers of journalism of all colors, could not help noticing that the editorial of January 21st entitled "Forlorn Echoes" concerned to a large extent our actions and intention...
...there was also a forlorn note to Tuesday night's protest, deepened by the occasional echoes of the conventions of 1960s protests. In that era, and as recently as the 1978 candlelight march protesting Harvard's South Africa-related investments, demonstrations sprang from a current of altruism. Today, as students devote ever more energy and time to the pursuit of their own advancement up the professional ladder of their choice, the weak sparks of protest spring instead from self-interest...
...first documentary, Report from the Aleutians (1942), included a shot of an aircraft bombsight, which was considered a military secret; the film was quickly pulled from movie theaters. San Pietro (1943-44) chronicled the battle for one ancient village in a forlorn corner of the Italian campaign; the film was chopped from five reels to three and its release delayed a year, until after V-E day. Let There Be Light (1945-46) showed the scarring effects of the war on soldiers hospitalized for shell shock; the War Department slapped a ban on it. Wrote Critic James Agee...
...week's end the hostages' where abouts were still secret and their fate uncertain. Diplomats in the State Department's Hostage Task Force were intent on pursuing a quiet, parallel set of negotiations: to arrange religious services for the hostages' second forlorn Christmas...
...once described Pittsburgh as "...appalling desolation. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth--and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke...