Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state of the nation's air defenses, Chairman Lyndon Johnson of Texas was ready to hear the worst. Results of the subcommittee's preliminary studies, he said, had been "deeply disturbing." The testimony of the week's two main witnesses did little to disperse the gloom...
...America's European allies as "unrecognizably neurotic" and disloyal. But this week Editor John Chamberlin sent a "Newest Freeman" to fifty university cities. It sports a glossy cover and four full page ads--but what is more important, The Freeman has sobered up. Its former hysteria has dissolved into gloom...
Hoping in the Gloom. Hardy's poems are limited in emotion; says Critic Blunden: his muse "lives too much in the frown." But the range of Hardy's subject matter is as wide as the range of his sympathies. In Reminiscences of a Dancing Man, a gay country dance turns into the dance of death; in The Respectable Burgher, an English gentleman who has been reading "higher criticism" of the Bible decides to turn to "that moderate man Voltaire"; in A Tramp-woman's Tragedy, the heroine teases her "fancy-man" into committing a pointless murder...
...lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used, to know," I should go with him in the gloom Hoping it might...
Upon the growing gloom...