Word: dismalness
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Recession. In Michigan auto cities, Great Lakes steel towns and Far West mine and timber communities, there were anticipated slumps, together with demands for extended unemployment compensation quickly. But in the eyes of most voters the economic picture is far from dismal. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas: "The recession hasn't hit this part of the country yet." Reported Indiana Republican William G. Bray: "Recession talk is not as prevalent as I thought." Even in Florida, hard hit by a citrus freeze and a bad tourist season, Democratic Senator George Smathers was "most surprised" at the lack...
...case mescaline and Vedanta, in Waugh's wine and Roman Catholicism). Each has a deep artistic integrity and an interest in odd characters -almost, unlike modern young men, to the exclusion of his own. If the '20s and '30s are remembered as nothing more than a dismal tract of history leading to present discontents, it will be partly because two wondrously articulate Fools were wiser than the lugubrious Lear of the tottering old order, whose motley they wore. Each disdains modern life. Huxley presents one character who might well speak for both authors when he recalls "Oxford...
...varsity's pitching was the only bright point in what was otherwise an afternoon of rather dismal baseball. Starter Dave Brigham worked a full nine innings and allowed only five hits, striking out five and walking four. Herb Schenier was equally impressive in finishing up the game...
...Tragic Beauty." A slight, unprepossessing man with a boyish face and frizzly red hair, Costigan is an actor of considerable force. He has played on such shows as Studio One and Omnibus. His "dismal" years as a Broadway stage hopeful helped turn Costigan into a TV playwright. In 1953 he ground out four original TV plays and six adaptations, then took off for a year in France and Ireland. Three times since then he has "gone home" to the country of his ancestors to absorb "the tragic beauty of the land, dark and sweet and green...
What lends the book its interest, despite shortcomings, is a scattering of mixed-blood, split-level aristocrats, culturally nouveau riche but genealogically ancien régime, and some well-described scenes of a dismal garrison town with bored military wives and senior officers well past their World War I prime. Above all, there is the unusual setting. Despite the fact that Novelist Dohrman, 29, has spent only one week in Haiti, he manages to convey that the jungle to him is partly D. H. Lawrence's "blood-consciousness" and partly O'Neill's "dat ole davil...