Word: wanderlied
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They are the cast of the too-too divine comedy that Ringling must wander through. Atherton hits the right note of hapless affability, but it is still only one note. All of the other roles are played by Ron Leibman and Anita Gillette, whose talents for mimicry and mime relieve a good deal of the script's bittersweet sentimentality and soft-core cynicism. Even evoked as burlesque, the brooding comic spirit of Dante is not suited to the underworld of show business, where the principal sin is usually self-delusion rather than pride...
Faced with an experience that is often too rich and complex to pin down, Salisbury begins to wander between aimless lists ("the very names a litany--Prairie du Chien, La Crosse, Winona, Wabasha, Red Wing") and inconsequent facts ("that watercourse which Anthony Trollope thought the finest in the world"). His airplane-window view of America inspires musings on our manifest destiny--he looks out over "the watershed of the Mississippi, the valleys of Ohio and the plainslands of Missouri, a continent in itself as surely designed for America's use as a woman's womb for the seed of humanity...
When words fail him, which is almost never, Moynihan does not mind making a point peripatetically: he will wander into the Security Council during a debate, walk around, sit down, get up, go out and come back in. "We sometimes feel that he does not take the Security Council seriously," complains one East Asian diplomat...
...conspiracy zuff. He has seen the Zapruder film only once and most of his friends think of him as a level-headed sort of fellow. But as the hours slid past and his reserve books remained on a landing strip in San Diego, Ralph's mind began to wander. He took to peering stealthily over the dining hall checker's shoulder to see whether or not he had eaten dinner, he hummed Carpenters' songs quietly to himself, and he hadn't slept since a fitful doze twenty thousand feet above Providence. Worst, he believed he was on to some kind...
...tiny ration of western sun that filters past the Institute of Politics and through the great window. Finally, there is the long and severe form of Mr. Fisher himself, the broker of futures, who is much more the stick than the carrot. For the ambitious student who happens to wander this way, the whole scene suggests, with a Protestant New England reserve, that, No, there is no earthly reward, or at least, To get a good job, you must work hard while you are here...