Word: wistfullness
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Appearing at a Better Business Bureau banquet in Chicago, Goldwater told 1,800 people that "I have my political hat on tonight." Then he laced into the Kennedy Administration, saying that the New Frontier has produced "1,026 days of wasted spending, wishful thinking, unwarranted intervention, wistful theories and waning...
Maria Schell, by herself, is enough to carry the film. As the demure Jeanne, her wedding night smile fades artfully into the wistful gaze of the betrayed wife. The male lead is not as successful. Christian Marquand has all the rugged facial angles that a hunter and sure-fire seducer...
In Rockefeller's home territory next day, Goldwater spoke at a business awards dinner at the New York Hilton. He charged that Kennedy's term thus far "adds up to nearly a thousand days of wasted spending, wishful thinking, unwarranted interventions, wistful theories and waning confidence." While Goldwater...
Sir John thrives on Texas. He and Lady Barbirolli make do in a Texas-rococo garden apartment and his favorite photo shows him wearing a little Western tie with "GO TEXAN" written on it. The ladies all declare themselves bewitched by him ("He's so wonderful, especially after Stokowski...
Masters had a keen eye for the eccentric and the cantankerous, the wistful dreamer and the self-pitying failure. He tried to give them tragic dignity, but his talent rarely carried him beyond the ironic cynicism that is merely unearned despair.