Word: forlorned
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...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...
...triangle is clearly irregular in the remake, and Shirley MacLaine, all forlorn, gives the best performance of her career as the teacher who is sickened to find that she is partly homosexual. Though the taboo word "lesbian" does not defile the sound track, the handling of "that kind of love" is reasonably adult (it is customary to praise Hollywood for being reasonably adult, as one praises a three-year-old for not spilling too much oatmeal...
Washington's only riposte was the rather forlorn hint that if Diem continues his refusal to launch reforms, U.S. Ambassador Nolting may be "temporarily" called back to Washington...
...Judges of the Secret Court, by David Stacton. The author, a historical novelist (On a Balcony) of rare skill, writes a bitter account of the death of Assassin John Wilkes Booth and the trial and execution of the forlorn set of dupes and fools named as his fellow conspirators...