Word: lovelorn
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...Hecht, Cecil B. DeMille), abruptly stopped writing music altogether, later explained: "I felt that I was wrong or the world was wrong, and I decided to find out." The process of discovery was oblique. Widely able, he wrote articles for Esquire on endocrinology, a daily advice-to-the-lovelorn column for the Chicago Sun Syndicate, a book in 1940 on international strategy (The Shape of the War to Come). With a conviction that modern music was "intellectualized" and "quibbling," he returned to composition with fresh regard for the romantic and heroic, turned out operas and symphonies that...
Chick of Time. From Salt Lake City, syndicated advice-to-the-lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers received a breathless request for her dating-behavior booklet "How Far to Go" with the postscript: "And please hurry...
...solidly in the black though it carries not a line of advertising, has spent only $350 on outright promotion. In fact, the essence of Mad's success is its nimble spoofing of promotions of all kinds. In its parodies of advertisements and travel stickers, vending machines and lovelorn columnists, Mad is a refreshingly impudent reaction against all the slick stock in trade of 20th century hucksterism, its hopped-up sensationalism, its visible and hidden persuaders...
...novel one of the blithest robustious romps of the year. The book's gusto is all the more remarkable coming from welfare-sated England and from 53-year-old Author (The Sleepless Moon) Bates, a writer who in recent years has focused on the somber, the lovelorn and the violent...
...letter seemed unusual and properly titillating, so Lovelorn Columnist Abigail Van Buren ran it routinely in her syndicated column. Dear Abby...