Word: wistfullness
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Following a wistful nod to his surroundings--"I have had an unrequited love for Harvard ever since they refused to let me in, quite properly"-Stone launched into an hour-long "case for the prosecution," showing several ways in which Socrates and Plato were indeed "enemies of their city," and...
The Middle Ages, like A.R. Gurney Jr.'s other plays about the declining Protestant elite (Scenes from American Life, the current off-Broadway hit The Dining Room), is a wistful, elegiac comedy that preserves a tight-lipped emotional reserve: confrontations that could be tragic are played for rueful laughter...
He sang like a frog and played his ever present ukulele like a hunt-and-peck typist. He talked with his mouth full and tossed aside his script to ad-lib whatever came into his head. He had no talent but folksiness. For Arthur Godfrey, that was enough. At his...
Usually they have to wait for someone to break an ankle or catch the flu before they are allowed to sing those songs in public. But for one night last week at Manhattan's Town Hall, they held center stage, belting out lyrics for which they are not at...
But if the first thing Betrayal undermines is our expectations of conventional moral responses, that is not the last or even the most important of its reversals. Adapting his own play, Pinter has retained the device that supplied its theatrical renown, a reverse structure. This is no mere matter of...