Word: wistfullness
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Fishing & Forgetting. Since spring training began, five weeks ago, home for the Williamses has been a $350-a-month furnished apartment near the Red Sox camp at Sarasota. Ted has great admiration for clamp-jawed Manager McCarthy, but under McCarthy, spring means hard work, and work makes Williams wistful. He...
For a minute after she sang her final words of wistful resignation, the audience was silent, then burst into seat-rattling applause. At intermission Lehmann had said, her eyes shining: "Fifty concerts! Aren't you tired of me?" At recital's end, the audience answered with cries of...
Godfrey himself can find but one explanation for his success: "It's because people believe in me. How the hell else can you explain it?" To CBS Board Chairman William Paley, Godfrey "is the kind of guy the average man would like to behe's a wistful projection...
Later, he stood before his friends in the same easy posture he always managed on the concert stage, his lined face wearing its wistful smile. He felt, he said, "like I had just listened to the obituary of my artistic career." Perhaps the eulogies, by his longtime friends, Commentator H...
The native New Yorker, still stubbornly seeking out the old, the fusty, and the slightly uncomfortable amidst the encroaching wilderness of stainless steel and blank glass, sighed a wistful sigh. The movers and shakers took no notice, determinedly pressed forward.