Word: dismalness
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BOOKS Best Reading Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. The ship is a German passenger-freighter that steams from Veracruz to Bremerhaven in 1931; the allegory is that this and all passages of the world's voyage are dismal; the art is consummate...
From Seed to Shambles. Last October, when his Texas 49th Armored Division was called up, Owen was just two months past his discharge after two years of active Army duty, much of it spent in Germany. Sent to Fort Polk, Owen and his fellow reservists found it a dismal place...
Thus did this dismal discussion of flatulence and fornication become a part of American literature. The first edition was limited to four copies and all subsequent editions, of which the present one is the forty-fifth, have also been limited. Never have so few pages been read by so few readers and attained such lasting notoriety...
...Against this dismal pattern the magazine holds a genuinely impressive tract, the introduction to the Secretary General's Annual Report. The product of the late Dag Hammarskold's lucid mind, it describes concepts of the U.N. as a "static conference for resolving conflicts of interest and ideologies" (the Wiley view) or as an organization able to play an effective role in the world through executive action. The only pity of it is that it ends so suddenly...
...though he had been in the limelight all his life. He flashed a grin reminiscent of Eisenhower's, turned his head in every direction for the crowds like a campaigning Kennedy. Perched on the back seat of the President's bubble-top Lincoln, he ignored the dismal drizzle, kept a protective left arm around his radiant wife Annie, and occasionally thrust out his other arm to shake the hand of daring youngsters who darted through the police lines to his side. Teenagers seemed especially fervent in their hero worship, and the girls punctuated his progress with squeals...