Word: ruefulnesses
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...Citadel by William White of the N.Y. Times, and incidentally, it's a hell of a condemnation of the excesses in congressional investigations"), and he also enjoys television. He dotes on big-money quiz shows. "I do fairly good on some of those questions," says Beck, in a rueful comparison with his answers on John McClellan's quiz show...
...post-World War II epilogue, only the madhouse and the maternity hospital are left undamaged. Remarque has long ago mastered a direct, insistent style that keeps the pages turning even when he seems all but mesmerized by the sententious cliche. There is much in this book that is funny, rueful and sorrowfully true. But he has drained just about all there is from German disillusion...
Advice. The book does not depend on its gamey moments and archaic oddballs for its best effects. Essentially it is a victory of writing, each sentence surely pointed toward its purpose. Author Cheevers rueful love of his characters touches every page of the book. But perhaps he liked Leander best, Leander who left this "Advice to my sons'" in a copy of Shakespeare...
...Connecticut in a mortgaged Cadillac to hear the reading of his father's will. In the family law office, Charlie spends an idle 15 minutes making a conquest of Ellen, a pretty secretary, a girl who proves singularly susceptible to a combination of old jokes and rueful self-pity. But after this pleasant diversion, the will is a nasty shock. Out of the million-dollar estate, Good-Time Charlie gets only a gold watch, some books and a few bottles of wine-not much use to a man who is unemployed, $12,000 in debt, and threatened with jail...
...published in 1900, Claudine at School was an instant and scandalous success. It went through innumerable editions and became so much a byword that manufacturers flooded Paris with a Lotion Claudine, a Chapeau Claudine, a Glace-Claudine and a Parfum de Claudine. Though lacking some of the rueful insight of Colette's later novels, the book remains a fresh and impressive piece of work, providing wit. penetrating observation, and a tolerable road map to the devious paths of a young girl's thinking. Most readers, as well as all P.T.A. mothers, will be able to echo Claudine...