Word: dismalness
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Just in Time. For Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's goat-bearded, Communist boss, the wall was utterly necessary to preserve the very life of his dismal satrapy. For seldom had history witnessed so great an exodus as had been flowing Westward in great clotted spurts. "You are sharing in the Great Socialist Experiment," Ulbricht cried to his people in 1949, as he cut their food ration and trimmed away their liberties. Far from sharing Ulbricht's enthusiasm, almost 3,500,000 East Germans-no less than 20% of the post-World War II population-fled to the West...
...book suggests all of the obvious clues to why, by 1% of the votes, the election went the way it did: the TV debates; Bobby Kennedy's telephone call to Martin Luther King Sr. when his son was jailed; the failure to exploit the dismal summer session of Congress; the drift of Catholics and other minorities...
...sets, by Jac Venza, tried to be terribly Gothic, but only managed to look faintly dismal...
Slogans & Doublethink. Spain's bloody ground became a moral gymnasium for all the liberals of the West; theirs is by now a depressing record of human illusion and disillusion. On the level of national policy, the story is equally dismal -the impotence of the League of Nations, the nonintervention policy of Britain and France and the arms Embargo Act in the U.S. leaving the door open for intervention by Stalin and the Axis. Historian Thomas' sober judgment is that German-Italian intervention may have just barely tipped the scales in Franco's favor; Stalin could have...
This is how things stand near the end of a dismal season...