Word: dourness
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...worst thing that has happened to Hanley is something that he could not have foreseen-the opening of Murray Schisgal's therapeutically hilarious Luv. Sorry-I-was-ever-born plays now sound like hollow parodies rather than dour profundities; since Luv raised its satirical whoop, playgoers are bound to lessen their self-commiserating indulgence of misery. More than ever a playwright who intends to woo his audience with some tale of woe will have to do it out of an intensely felt, intensively rendered personal experience...
Inside the castle's vast Gothic Vladislav Hall, 294 Deputies of the tame Communist Parliament were gathered to elect a new President. For weeks there had been hints that dour Antonin Novotny, 59, who for seven years has been both President and Communist Party chief, might lose the presidency, possibly as the first step to complete oblivion. Once a Stalinist who survived by ruthlessly killing off his rivals, Novotny had become a slavish follower of the deposed Nikita Khrushchev. During the recent Moscow ceremonies celebrating the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Novotny was noticeably absent from the Communist lineup...
...Iberian boom is due partly to happy climate, partly to courtesy. Spaniards are reminded almost daily by the government press about the dour effects that bad manners have had elsewhere-meaning across the Pyrenees in France...
There he was, a stolid figure in the rear of an open car, his eyes downcast, a study in dejection. He rode in dour silence to the Capitol while Presidentelect Franklin Roosevelt, sitting beside him, smiled that famous smile and waved to the cheering throngs...
...erosive to his chances for re-election is Macapagal's own personality-or lack of it. Volatile Filipinos want a volatile leader, like peppery Ramon Magsaysay, who was killed in a plane crash seven years ago. Diosdado (Spanish for "God-given") Macapagal, at 54, is well-meaning but dour, a self-proclaimed "poor boy" from the distant provinces who prefers conservative business suits to the cool, frilly barong tagalog sport shirt favored by Manila sports and Magsaysay...