Word: forlorned
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Compatriot--it sounded so musical yet so forlorn. I shrink from recalling that greeting because it hangs in my memory like a portent of betrayal. I hope it really meant that hope is possible. Already the man had culled suspicion in a stolidly bourgeois farming couple as he pressed for workers' movements, and in a spurt of desperation and elation, invoked Che Guevara's name. I guess he'll learn...
...with his shock of white hair and Irish brogue, is a familiar figure. Nevertheless, he is trying to change his image. Identified as far back as anyone can remember with every possible liberal-left cause, he is casting himself as a "middle-of-the-road ethnic" in the probably forlorn hope of cutting into the Moynihan constituency. For all his radical past, he is also supported by the regular Democratic organization-showing that any renegade who stays around long enough eventually acquires respectability. The question is how much good this backing will...
Parker, a scrambler with strong currents of cockney in his speech, started out in the mail room of a London ad agency and within seven years was the head of his own flourishing production company. His specialty was commercials that recalled old movies. One showed a freshly forlorn figure at a railway station, trudging through clouds of locomotive steam, accompanied by the Rachmaninoff theme from Brief Encounter and making his melancholy way home to break open a Birds Eye Frozen Dinner for One. Parker made over 600 commercials in less than six years, hankering all the while to do something...
...Reagan's suite on the last night, Schweiker seemed a rather forlorn figure. He gamely tried to laugh along with some of the inside staff jokes about the Reagan campaign just ended, but mostly he gazed silently into the TV screen. He and Reagan had little to say to each other; there was not a great deal more familiarity between the two men than when Schweiker's name was first proposed and Reagan did not even know who he was. It had been a ruinous mismatch...
...longueurs of the event and the difficulties imposed by protocol, did manage to make a couple of nice observations. They disclosed that in unguarded moments, the Queen has a truly sweet, curiously girlish smile. They also showed that the only glamorous male present, Gary Grant, can look as forlorn and out of it as any mere mortal when no one is paying any attention to him at a party. Such brief privileged moments, however, were not worth the network's trouble. Doubtless it will think twice before inviting itself to another White House party...