Word: dourness
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...occasion is always a night's adventure. Dour guards, who prowl the fenced perimeters at other times, paste on smiles and put on star-spangled uniforms. The heavy doors that are usually closed are wide open. But this night there was something unusual afoot. The commemoration of the Russian Revolution may have proved to be the first significant social and diplomatic event of the soon-to-arrive Reagan Administration...
...U.S.S.R. is not prepared to be a bull in the corrida of Madrid," declared Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. That pronouncement served as a dour keynote for the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe that convened in the Spanish capital last week. The object of the long-scheduled conference was to review the members' compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords on military security, economic cooperation and human rights. But throughout, it was clear that the Soviets had every intention of blocking any proceedings devoted to their own human rights record or their Afghanistan invasion...
With his short, grizzled hair and dour expression, he looks more like the head of a Soviet trade mission than a Saudi businessman with far-flung interests and resources. He owns no jets or yachts, and is never seen at the playgrounds of the rich. Suliman Olayan, 62, is instead a self-made, thoroughly westernized entrepreneur who, among other activities, has been quietly using a cash surplus of about $300 million to buy big stakes in more than 60 U.S. companies...
...team's best outing--the season finale--made the dour, eight-game winless streak that closed the campaign a bit less bitter. And despite their record, the stick-women received an opportunity to return to post-season play after a year's absence because not enough qualified teams applied to the EAIAW Division I tournament. Of course, with a 4-7-4 record entering the event, they were the last seed and played their first-round game against the top-seeded Wildcats, whom they had tied in Durham September...
Somewhere here there is a message--the nation's syndicated psychoanalysts quickly diagnosed a shift to the Right. Cogent, even obvious, but incomplete. The 1980 election either represents widespread dissatisfaction with Jimmy Carter (the majority op-ed view) or a near-total realignment of American politics, a conclusion more dour but also more plausible...