Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chorus of confidence is swelling across the U.S. After months of gloom and fear instilled by the worst slump since the 1930s, the nation's leading economists and the chiefs of its major corporations are now almost unanimously saying that the recession is ending and that an upturn is on the way. Both the timing and the strength of the recovery are in sharp dispute. A sprinkling of optimists asserts that it has begun already and will gain speed rapidly. A few pessimists expect the economy to bump along close to its recession lows for many painful months before...
Beyond Control. The events, understandably, spread gloom to a big Boeing 707 jet flying over the deserts of Saudi Arabia one day last week. U.S. reporters on board heard one of the blackest assessments of global events ever uttered by a certain "senior American official." That prescribed euphemism, of course, failed to disguise the obvious source: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. To hear him tell it, sounding like an airborne Spengler. American foreign policy seemed to be spinning out of control-and almost solely because Americans had plunged masochistically into a self-destructive attitude toward world affairs induced by their...
...which is Women in the Garden. He set up this vast canvas (over 8 ft. high) in his garden and even had a trench dug to rest it in so that he could paint the top without having to teeter on a stool. Its tonal contrasts between the green gloom of the trees and the crisp white of the girls' dresses in the bleaching sun are a manifesto of early impressionism...
...nation frightened by the deepest recession and highest unemployment since before Pearl Harbor, Simon insists that inflation is the greater long-run peril. To a Congress bent on cutting taxes and raising spending far more than the Administration wants, Simon endlessly preaches the dangers of overstimulation. His gloom seems excessive, but he is making some points worth heeding...
...Crimson has been hampered thus far by some of the worst university track facilities in the country. But they will escape the Cambridge gloom when they jaunt down to sunny South Carolina for some hard training and a meet with Baptist College over spring break...