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...wire-rimmed spectacles instead of plastic ones." As he acquired the accouterments of the past, "the magnetic grip of this way of life began to settle on me." At Bard College, where he spent three years, he decorated and refurnished his room. "It was the epitome of Victorian gloom," he recalls...
Dropping out of school three years ago and settling in Tivoli, he transplanted that gloom to a six-room, rented house that he named "Bleakmoore," evoking echoes of Emily Bronte. But he is by no means a recluse. At least once a month he invites four or five like-minded friends over for a "banquet" of turkey cooked on a 1915-vintage parlor stove, plays the piano (Chopin is his favorite composer) for them or else puts some of his 3,500 Golden Oldie records on the gramophone. A painstaking craftsman who charges up to $1,500 to recondition...
...economic and population growth cannot continue infinitely on a finite planet. But it also predicted that-unless growth was stopped -most of the human race would suffocate in pollution or starve soon after the turn of the century. This forecast stirred international controversy and made the club synonymous with gloom and doom. Then, when critics found glaring faults with the assumptions made by Limits as well as a crucial mathematical error in the computer model on which the predictions were based (TIME, Oct. 15, 1973) the Club of Rome retreated into silence. But not for long...
...dull moan, so he would take them out and put them on the stove every once in a while. And it would sound like singing for a few seconds, then slow down again. A drunk man came tapping at the window, calling "Nikahan, Nikahan," who sat still in the gloom until the man stumbled away under the northern lights...
...headed into the homestretch of the second electoral campaign this year, the mood of the country and the sharply contrasting styles of its two major parties could not have been more clearly drawn. Offered a choice of Laborite Harold Wilson's balm or Tory Ted Heath's gloom, the voters seemed to be opting for the former...