Word: rueful
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...Comedian Carl Reiner, retains stubborn, slightly awkward traces of honest observation. He knows that the immigrant family walks on American soil hopefully, but always with the small secret fear that it is treading quicksand. A name change may spell assimilative success, but Stein recognizes that it also contains a rueful hint of cultural extinction. This is not to suggest that Enter Laughing is a social document, but merely that its solid sense of social place and time (the Depression) gives an evening of frequently paralyzing laughter an element of true comic bite...
...astonishing spectrum of Southern novelists there is Faulkner. He loved the land's dark soil and, in a rueful way, its people. Toward the middle of the range is a large group of writers for whom the South is merely a neutral, abundant earth to be walked on and, where it is interesting, written about. At the spectrum's other extremity are a few novelists to whom the South itself is a vast, febrile malevolence. Among these, on the evidence of Eternal Fire, is Calder Willingham, 40, a Georgia expatriate who now lives in New Hampshire...
...takes his inoculations on one of the armed forces' medical production lines, many a G.I. has been moved to rueful speculation: How many shots must a man get before they begin to do more harm than good? Last week an Air Force doctor provided an answer that was hardly reassuring for the needle-shy. Repeated inoculations of vaccines, reported Major Rexford Haycraft, are not organically harmful...
...Rosenkavalier she was by turns amorous, petulant, rueful, forgiving, giving vibrant conviction to her understanding of the Marschallin as "the typical sensuous woman." And with her pure soprano under fine control, she was even more impressive in Capriccio, the gentle "conversation piece for music" that stands as Strauss's operatic testament. The triumph was doubly remarkable because Capriccio is all talk and no action, an 18th century intellectual argument over the relative merits of words and music. Said Schwarzkopf, elated but astonished at her success: "Two Italian singers and some dancers appear, the countess changes her dress -and that...
...understanding spas her will to live. Miss Quested is played by Ann Meacham, and she is stiff and frightened and honest in just the right English proportions. Fielding (Eric Portman), the old teacher who learns that Indian and English are like oil and water, is good-a rueful, dignified portrayal...