Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lower Manhattan, Firing Line finally ran out of ammunition. Hosted for 33 years by the conservative intellectual William F. Buckley Jr., the show taped its final installment, which will air on PBS stations the week of Dec. 26. Blue and white balloons had been set out to leaven the gloom, as had a panel of younger pundits, including Michael Kinsley and William Kristol. Their conversation was unhurried and intelligent, as it always is on Firing Line. Watching it all, you couldn't help thinking that something more than a TV show was passing away...
...fair Harvard, show pity for the sons of Eli. Even the gloom of New Haven can be lifted by superficial athletic achievement. It would have been terribly embarrassing if Yale dropped the ball--like it has done so many times in the past ten years--in front of so many alums...
Fortunately, the AIDS story has not been all gloom and doom. Less than two years after AIDS was recognized, the guilty agent--human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV--was identified. We now know more about HIV than about any other virus, and 14 AIDS drugs have been developed and licensed in the U.S. and Western Europe...
...warm-and-fuzzy intimacy of the recently designed service area clashes discordantly with the cavernous gloom of the Eliot House dining area. The dining hall does not integrate efficiency and intimacy but grafts the two onto each other like some ghastly sideshow freak. Any dining experience there is a fitful shift between discomfort and comfort, between Harvard and home...
...youngest we've ever had, by the way) embodied the intoxicating feeling at the turn of the century that America had at last become a world power. Reagan, at the moment of his accession, embodied a general national desire to put aside all the self-doubt and gloom of the 1970s and recover the optimism and patriotism of the 1950s. So to put it very simply, our presidents should represent the best of us. And when they represent the worst of us--as in the case of Nixon--the American people themselves begin to have a feeling of self-doubt...