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...University first learns of proposal to build underpasses at Boylston St., River St., and Western Ave. John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, reacts with "pure, horrid gloom" when told that one of the access roads to the Boylston St. underpass might come very close to the corner of his House...
...usual as a diplomatic "third secretary," Schwirkmann with four embassy friends decided to attend Sunday services at Zagorsk, the medieval Russian Orthodox monastery 42 miles from the capital. During the service Schwirkmann felt a blow on his left thigh, thought he had merely brushed against someone in the temple gloom, but then discovered a soaked spot on his left trouser leg. Afterward a bearded "guide," who introduced himself as an Orthodox seminarian, offered insistently to escort the party on a thorough tour of Zagorsk. The Germans declined...
Scull's figures may be open to dispute, but his deep gloom over the Goldwater nomination was by no means an isolated phenomenon. For just as the Senator from Arizona evokes an almost fanatic devotion among his followers, he stirs a feeling of horror among many who disagree with him. To them, he is the backward-looking leader of the new Luddites, enraged at the complexities of modern life and bent on smashing the machinery that has been painstakingly devised over the past 50 years to deal with them. "A group has taken control here," said Henry Cabot Lodge...
...FRANCISCO, July 17--Gloom prevailed here today as a few remaining Scranton workers supervised the reconversion of their convention headquarters into a floor of hotel rooms...
These three are not alone in the excellence which marks the play's somber acts. Brian Norman has all the energy of the young prince Mamillius with unusual naturalness for someone so young; while Joan Tolentino as Paulina lightens the pervading gloom with her tart-tongued intimidation of Leontes and his lords. Only David Mills's Camillo could be improved substantially; extremely expressive, (he might show more teeth and fewer tonsils), he seems too weak (at times almost boobish) to be so trusted a counsel to both kings...