Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WONDERFUL WORLD OF ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM (Warner) features the young Brazilian composer who wrote most of Getz's best numbers. Backed by Nelson Riddle's band, Jobim picks up the mike himself to sing, in a husky, rueful, rather monotonous voice, some of his subtle and insinuating songs (Useless Landscape, She's a Carioca, A Felicidade...
...While I salute your Essays as an attack on anti-intellectualism, "On War as a Permanent Condition" [Sept. 24] made me rueful. You apologize for our Viet Nam presence by arguing that our interests, political, economic and moral, are served by this engagement. Eventually, we shall see that "freedom" was a cloud under which we concealed a Machiavellian dominance of the economic-political over the moral...
...horrible but definitive, repellent but-pending realization of the dream of world order-inevitable. Soldiers in all wars usually manage to make some rueful appraisal of this human dilemma, and the G.I.s in South Viet Nam are no exception. Their catchall comment, endlessly applied to one another's hard-luck stories of great pain or minor difficulty, is a deadpan "Sorry about that...
Newley has obviously modeled himself on Charlie Chaplin, but he loves the master less than the master's cloak, and he wears it with a rueful difference. Where Chaplin was earthy, Newley is smirkingly vulgar. Chaplin was a prisoner of life who sang in his chains; Newley is a resentful slave of the class system who cries in his pint of bitters. Chaplin's Little Tramp was a tattered knight of the open road, dueling his foes with his wits and a twirling cane. Newley's Oh-So-Little Man, windily inflated with his rights...
Cabot is equally proud and rueful. "These enormous figures could be very discouraging to the man of small or moderate means who gives only $5 or $10," he says. "But I believe that no college or university is much good if it doesn't have continuing enthusiasm and the willingness to sacrifice...