Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacArthur last week proclaimed anew Japan's conversion to democracy. Whenever talk of East Asia congealed with gloom, someone said: "Japan is the hope." And whoever looked at the possibilities of protecting Western Europe said: "The Germans will defend us." Winston Churchill, who used to call the Germans "the dull brute mass," more recently referred to them as "a mighty race without whose effective aid the glory of Europe could not be revived...
...holding its 237-year-old fiesta, to celebrate the reconquest of the Indians by the Spanish. The fiesta would open, as it always does, with the burning of Zozobra, a 40-ft. effigy with a face of abysmal discontent (see cut). Zozobra, in Santa Fe folklore, represented Old Man Gloom...
...Washington, there were the usual miasmal patches of gloom: the desperate financial plight of the British, the menace of Communism in the Far East. Washington worried that the U.S. public too easily put these problems out of mind, or wished them away. But it was human nature to delegate worry. And Americans have never had much capacity for sustaining gloom. Besides, there was a chance that the world, in the long run, was not going to hell...
...United Nations, 550 scientists from 49 nations bent their heads over the problems of the old earth. They saw the present 2 billion population increased to 3 billion by the year 2000. But they were plunged in no Malthusian gloom. They could see, on the contrary, a day when the whole world would be better off. Science was the tool-but not the answer. The answer was man himself. Said The Netherlands' Dr. Egbert de Vries, expert on rural economies: "People are an asset, a natural,resource, and not a liability . . . Humanity has the right, the duty...
...mirrors the sunlight, jog hastily off, deserting their workshop; the Dermestes,* of whom one wears a fawn-colored tippet flecked with white, seek to fly away, but, tipsy with the putrid nectar, tumble over and reveal the immaculate whiteness of their bellies, which forms a violent contrast with the gloom of the rest of their attire...