Word: dourness
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Depressing Deceiver. What emerges from their findings, conclude Authors Berelson and Steiner, is a dour view of Western man-not the Greek lover of reason, the Christian believer in redemption, or the Renaissance liberator of human power, but a depressing creature with a vast talent for distorting reality because of psychological needs. "Behavioral-science man" thinks what fits his wishes, says what pleases his peers, avoids conflict and protects his neuroses. He votes with his friends, wants what he has to work for, and thinks that his group or organization ranks higher than it does. If threatened with disillusionment...
...sacrifice his life. Micheal Ehrhardt plays General Burgoyne, a character whose ability to mock an absurd situation resembles Dick's; he is impressive in his dignity, biting in his wit. Even Pamela Harris's opening gesture foreshadows the careful details of her performance: she awakens, and consciously assumes her dour, self-righteous expression...
...Catholic." A devout churchgoer who attends Mass daily, he was born in Lecce in the heel of Italy's boot, studied law at the University of Bari, at 24 began teaching. Entering Parliament in 1946, the newcomer was nicknamed by his colleagues "The Quaker" because of his dour outlook and austere habits. Through sheer diligence, Moro became Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1948, received his own ministry (Justice) in 1955. However, his speeches as a politician sounded as if he were still addressing law students at Bari, contained so many pedantic abstractions that deciphering his meanings gave rise...
...Majority. Yet if the election was a personal triumph for Betancourt, it was considerably less of a political victory. As expected, the winner was Raul Leoni, 57, the shrewd, dour president of Betancourt's Accion Democrdtica party. A founder of A.D., Leoni served as Venezuela's Labor Minister while Be tancourt was provisional President from 1945 to 1948, later took over the party leadership in 1958 when Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez was overthrown and Betancourt elected President. Leoni campaigned on a promise to continue Betancourt's successful economic and social reforms. But he lacks Betancourt...
Dundee, a dour, slum-ridden industrial city (pop. 182,900) on Scotland's east coast, is famed for its marmalade and maverick politics. It has sent only two Tory M.P.s to Westminster in 131 years, and in 1922 threw out Winston Churchill, then a Liberal, in favor of the only Prohibitionist ever to sit in Parliament. In 1959 the Labor Party only managed to hang onto Dundee by 714 votes, and so, in last week's by-election, the Tories had hopes that the impact of a new, Scottish Prime Minis ter might help to defeat Labor. Instead...