Word: lovelorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, there are moments when the writer practically dithers with good-hearted advice to lovelorn friends. At such times, he seems rather sweetly engaged in life's daily emotional traffic, even though Kafka was aware that he could never experience what Thomas Hardy called "the wonder and the wormwood of the whole...
...seem to sell best when "joy" is part of the title, and a gossamer tale of juvenile heartbloom and heartbreak called Happy Days is one of the strongest-running sitcoms on the tube. Weightless romance, to be sure, has always been a TV staple, but now the lovelorn soaps have gained such a galvanized following among old and young that television can spoof itself with an unsavory parody of the genre called Soap. Public TV found out not long ago that it could gather its most zealous audience ever with the quality soap opera called Upstairs, Downstairs. Many radio stations...
...Press International, feed news from New York headquarters to more than 16,000 U.S. and foreign newspapers, radio stations and TV news desks. Scores of New York-based syndicates, ranging from Dow Jones and King Features to Hearst and Fairchild, also transmit daily features (political columns, advice to the lovelorn, gardening tips and much, much more) by electronic impulse to thousands of clients. When the dynamos serving New York went dead, so-at least briefly-did a large portion of international communications...
...Washington Post is an ordinary American paper that willed itself to be better. It still carries much of the standard dreck-lovelorn columns, horoscopes, beauty hints-as well as 25 comics. But to this compost heap the Post has added solid and penetrating reporting and an engaging flair...
...Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers came to offer advice; Priscilla of Boston, who PEOPLE designed Tricia Nixon's wedding gown, put on a fashion show; and Ellen Proxmire, wife of Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, brought a four-tiered wedding cake. Cartoon fans, take heart. Before the evening's end, Messick assured all present that Brenda would stick to her old newspaper beat for some time to come. After all, explained Dale, "she didn't marry a rich...