Word: woefulness
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This "musical play" plants Cervantes in the dungeons of the Inquisition and pivots on the device of having him defend himself and his book in a mock trial by acting out the role of the knight of the woeful countenance. The indictment is modishly mock-cynical a la 1965; not the worst of the evening's sentimentalities is: "I charge you with being an idealist, a bad poet and an honest man. How plead you?" With this cue, the good grey don (Richard Kiley) whirls into his act. He tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where...
...Quakers have a pair of good sophomore quarterbacks, who may demonstrate that Dartmouth's impressive defensive statistics are a bit misleading. The Indians' big question mark is their pass defense, and it wasn't tested by woeful New Hampshire or by pass-poor Holy Cross last week...
...turned out to be far less an educational forum than a platform for intra-academy cattiness and pointless caterwauling. Anti-Administration speakers showed a woeful lack of accurate information and a disturbing tendency to use only the facts that proved their case for reduction or total abolition of the U.S. involvement in Asia. The star performer-and chief advocate for the Administration-was to have been McGeorge Bundy, the President's No. 1 White House aide on foreign affairs. At the last minute. Bundy sent his regrets, saying only that he could not attend because of "other duties...
...Klokan, the Klokard and the Kloncilium, the Klonklave and the Klonvokation, the Kloran and the Kla-rogo, the Klorero and the Kludd.* In the Klan Kalendar, the days of the week were named Dark, Deadly, Dismal, Doleful, Desolate, Dreadful and Desperate; the weeks of the month were Woeful, Weeping, Wailing, Wonderful and Weird, and the months Bloody, Gloomy, Hideous, Fearful, Furious, Alarming, Terrible, Horrible, Mournful, Sorrowful, Frightful and Appalling...
...might learn a lot from this," philosophized Producer Levine. But what? For one thing, not to bring in even a musical with such a predictable, progressionless plot. Nor one with such woeful gags or sappy lyrics ("I'll take you where it snows and talk poetic prose"). Among other liabilities: no name star to sell the benefit fringe...