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Even among Americans who fully expect the worst from the fuel crisis, a stubbornly incandescent optimism has begun to shine through the gloom. People who lament the expected death of a comfortably affluent, energy-intensive way of life look forward to a rebirth of some old values. "We have become literally and figuratively fat," says William C. Westmoreland, the general who commanded U.S. forces in Viet Nam and now directs economic development for South Carolina. "Perhaps the crisis will bring us back to some of the virtues that made this country great, like thrift and the belief that waste...
...approach to composition and in their goals. But this point seems to have escaped the performers Friday. They sang through motets by both composers with stodgy phrasing, a limited dynamic range, and a sort of funereal literalness which reduced the genius of both men to a common level of gloom...
Everyone venturing from the halflight of the lockerroom into the pool stiffens for an instant as she approaches the pool. Perhaps it is Asimov's space shock--caused by the sudden shift from the low-ceilinged ill-lighted gloom to the vast high-ceilinged expanse of the pool room...
...London stage in 1961. In the novel, an enlarged and fundamentally altered work built around the play, Donleavy has stripped the classic fairy tale of its sharp dichotomy between good and bad, while retaining many of its mythic qualities. He has written an intensely personal vision of universal gloom. Like his hero, Donleavy was raised in New York, and like him, he sports a cultured accent, acquired at Trinity College in Dublin, and through life in England and Ireland...
Between the end of 1972 and last month, when the latest study was completed, the consumer-confidence index plummeted 19 points to 71.8. That was a much sharper decline than in the 1969-1970 period just preceding the worst of the last recession. The report asserts that public gloom about all kinds of shortages and weaknesses in national leadership will soon show up in substantially reduced buying trends and that "a recession by early next year is possible, perhaps even probable...