Word: dourness
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...Dour, brusque, blunt to the point of rudeness, Humphrey's private diagnostician is not easy to know or to like. Yet despite the suspicions he arouses as a result of his intimacy with the Democratic candidate, he is probably the most salutary influence within Humphrey's inner circle. "I have no ax to grind," says Berman. "I'm not after a damn thing. I have no intention of trying to become Surgeon General, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, or anything like that. That's why I can talk to the Vice President...
...seemed an unlikely sort of man to be a combat general. Dour, shy, peering at the world through sedate, rimless glasses, he looked more like a college president or a banker. His voice was soft, his language reserved. A small measure of the man was his constant companion, a big, silver German shepherd named King, who had been sent to Viet Nam as a sentry dog but had proved too tame for the task...
...farmhouse in the north of France, the artist slathered paint on hundreds of moody, windswept landscapes and chunky, darkly lit still lifes. These form the basis of his popular reputation in museums around the world. Little in the dour, somber tones of these pictures indicates that Vlaminck first made his mark as a member of the Fauves, the "wild beasts" whose savagely colored canvases so shocked Paris at the Salon d'Automne...
...abstemious and devout Baptist, Watson left an executive post with the Lone Star Steel Co. in Dallas three years ago to work full time for the President. Earlier, in 1964, he had helped direct arrangements at the Democratic Convention. He is remembered for his dour directive to office girls, telling them not to spend their lunch hours basking on the Atlantic City boardwalk and not to wear diaphanous blouses...
Trudeau could technically delay elections until the parliamentary term expires in 1970, but he is eager to challenge the opposition Tories, who also have a new leader in Nova Scotia's dour Robert Stanfield, 53. Thus, Trudeau is expected to dissolve Parliament by September and go to the country in an effort to win his own majority and a full five-year term for himself...