Word: wistfullness
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Nude Shakes. Far beyond New York, there was wistful talk of Lindsay among Republicans hungry for a dynamic presidential candidate. Many noted the passing similarities between J.V.L. and J.F.K., a common legacy of grace and style, a clear-eyed toughness, a springy vigor. Lindsay is even handsomer than Kennedy, but...
It is easy to see why she fascinates a daring young psychiatrist (John Cullum) who wants to frogleap Freud into the mental future. After all, she knows his phone is ringing before it rings, and she can grow plants faster than Jack's beanstalk by singing nicely to them...
MULLING over the governmental structure of the newborn United States, Thomas Jefferson went on record as favoring "little or no diplomatic establishment." That wistful measure of the proper size for the U.S. State Department prevailed for more than a century. At the time when Secretary of State William Seward was...
As to the publisher, there are two possibilities. One is that Scribner recalled, in a wistful twinge of corporate memory, that Thomas Wolfe manuscripts used to arrive in packing cases, too. The other is that the publisher is employing the Big Bad Books technique. This variance of the Big Lie...
In a film distinguished for airy good humor, the performances are all neatly off-center, and the setting catches the nostalgia of Ronald Searle's curlicued title designs. But beneath the thrills, spills and laughter of this farcical adventure lies a keen, almost wistful admiration for the great achievements...