Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russian-born Hearst Society Gossipist Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker to his readers), charged with "willfully" failing to register as an agent for Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic, cut a rueful figure in court as he pleaded nolo contendere and awaited the judge's sentencing. Short on money for a defense and hopeful of avoiding adverse publicity for his designer-brother Oleg, whom he now works for and lives with, the onetime jet-set traffic dispatcher seemed to have lost his soaring spirits. Says a friend: "His whole life has collapsed. He lost his column. He lost his business...
...that would really put them off. The World Federation gave a healthy account of its numbers: 52 million of the world's 72 million Lutherans, making it the third largest confessional grouping (after Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy). It reported a respectable worldwide expansion, perhaps symbolized by the rueful recollection of the delegate from Indonesia, Andar Lumbantobing, that only 130 years ago his ancestors ate two Boston missionaries...
...characters and the situation in The L-Shaped Room may be familiar, but they both come alive to present, with poignant vividness, the pain and pleasure of love that is the essence of life. The laughter of the audience reflects, by its rueful tone the accuracy of the film at many moments. This movie seems to have the cathartic effect that other foreign films aim for, but usually miss because of a lack of subtlety that tries to pass for realism. Restraint is evident here where it is often lacking in other pictures--the photography is not bizarre, but merely...
...When Drake was winning seas for England," in Poet Patrick Kavanagh's rueful lines, "We sailed in puddles of the past." For the most part, Ireland's postliberation politicians and intellectuals seemed determined to ignore the seas for the puddles. For years they kept up the strident outcry over partition and winked at endless, squalid raids on the Ulster border. Ireland, after all, was a divided country for decades before such latecomers to partition as Germany, Korea and Viet...
...this engaging second novel. Author James Stevenson, 33, displays Marquand's feel for the half rueful, wholly droll confrontation between the really wellborn and those who are merely born to do well. But he is less interested in dynastic decay than in dilettante dilemma. The islanders' big "fight McKinney" meeting bogs down in bickering about whether or not a mole has been gnawing at croquet court number three, and the whole argument becomes entirely academic when a pair of McKinney's bulldozers crash onto the court in the middle of the annual tournament. A hapless adulterer, surprised...