Word: lovelessness
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...bachelor (Edward Andrews). Their hesitant, tongue-tied courtship contained perhaps too many pregnant pauses and awkward gropings for words, but even though the drama bore a considerable resemblance to Paddy Chayefsky's Holiday Song of several years ago, it achieved the agonizing ache and flowering fulfillment of the loveless who finally find love...
Despite the tax and Bang's disease charges, Governor Beardsley seems to be leading Loveless...
...Herschel Loveless, 41, the sincere and ungrammatical mayor of Ottumwa (pop. 34,000), is Beardsley's opponent. Loveless' chief issue: Iowa, where liquor now can be sold legally only in state-operated package stores, should have legal liquor by the drink...
...actively evil, but merely weak, his wife has retreated into a cocoon of neuroses. His brother-in-law is a shiftless drunk who pretends he can write, and his journalist daughter is a loveless prig. Sands's first homosexual buddy, a stage designer, has left him for a theatrical producer. His second, a young bookshop manager, is in the clutch of a possessive mother. Bernard Sands feels superior to the shoddy lot until he sees a fellow homosexual dragged away by the police-and suddenly feels ready to side with the law and "join the hounds in the kill...
...lofty prestige of the '20s and '30s, Moon does read better than The Iceman Cometh. Iceman hacked at its one point-that man cannot live without illusions-with an icepick. Moon switches from the disenchanted mind to the undernourished heart. At core, its lament for the loveless is a gentle and moving...