Word: plangent
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...Windmill. Its dragon-green neon arms whirl day and night, its sexy carhops skip out in black slacks to take orders on the big, asphalt parking space, its gigantic jukebox, hitched up to outdoor amplifiers, drenches the area with blare: Pin Ball Boogie, maybe, or Jo Stafford's plangent yearning for someone to Make Love to Me -and always plenty of hillbilly...
Wrote an awed reviewer in the New York Times, with just a tongue-tip in cheek: "We should not be surprised to hear . . . that the intellectuals had discovered Mr. Capp's opera, and that words like dichotomy, plangent and ambivalent were being thrown at him, wrapped in pages from Kafka and Dostoevski . . . The Life & Times of the Shmoo is a cultural event of enormous significance...
...Sojourning (indefinitely) in Paris: Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of Florida's plangent Senator. As representative of the People's Mandate Committee, Mrs. Pepper will haunt the coulisses of the Conference until she has interviewed all the leaders of the 21 delegations. First to be bagged: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who told her that he will recommend postponement of the U.N. General Assembly (now scheduled to meet on Sept. 23 in New York City) "until the end of the year." Mrs. Pepper also asked the Foreign Minister what he considered the chief stumbling block to the Peace Conference...
Director George Stevens (The Talk of the Town) last week rhetorically answered a rhetorical question: "How can the movies best aid the war effort?" The discussion, in which Novelist Erskine Caldwell, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Walt Disney and others also joined plangent voices, was broadcast on the American Forum...
Britons of all political complexions, tensely watching the grim news from Russia, read a London Evening Standard editorial that put their hopes into plangent words. Author was the Standard's crusading young Editor Michael Foot, 27, whose book, Guilty Men, caused an uproar in Britain just after Dunkirk. Excerpts...