Word: loneliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fast Pesos. A Bacolod shopkeeper told an American: "In the old days, election day was like a fiesta. People stayed for hours to talk outside the polling places. Today they are afraid. As soon as they vote, they run back and stay in their homes. This is the loneliest election I have ever seen...
...when Conductor Serge Koussevitzky got it under way, the audience found No. 2 not at all hard to like. It opened with a quiet conversation between two clarinets-"the loneliest music I know" -symbolizing Auden's characters in the Third Avenue bar. Nearly 30 minutes later, it got to a huge, orgiastic orchestral climax, then resolved into a thoughtful epilogue. Overall, listeners heard more melody and less dissonance than they had come prepared to hear. Standout movement: a rhythmically terrific apotheosis of jazz, with Lennie himself at the piano, backed by bass fiddler and percussion...
...diplomacy as Ike Eisenhower's brilliant wartime chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith switched smoothly to the civilian brand in 1946 as U.S. ambassador to Moscow. There, for almost three years, he has nursed his ulcers and plugged determinedly away at the nation's toughest, loneliest diplomatic post. But in the stiffening deadlock of U.S.-Soviet relations there has been little that any diplomat could do other than make futile trips to the Kremlin...
...long as schoolboy conversations were intellectual Robert got along fine, a classmate remembers, but surrounded by small talk, Robert sat morose, "exactly as though he weren't getting enough to eat or drink." The boy told his favorite English teacher, Herbert Winslow Smith: "I'm the loneliest man in the world...
Only a handful of men have ever gone poking into Antarctica. It is the coldest, loneliest, least known of all the continents; even its coastline has remained an uncompleted puzzle to mapmakers. Last week, a stubby little ship steamed into New York Harbor with some of the missing pieces...