Word: gloom
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...prevailing gloom is laced with latent excitement, for he fills his brush strokes with nervous energy and uses crude but dramatic color schemes involving generous clouds of black and ultramarine which emit red and white flashes. Composition is perhaps his strong point: like most of his canvases. Hultberg's Airport (see cut) looks elaborate as a house of cards, yet solid as a concrete runway...
...party of Czechs and Poles fleeing the Nazis in a German plane. After that, she is seized by a plausible, if not entirely convincing, urge for expiation. Despite its sad undertones, The Breaking Wave is a novel in which the characters chin up to life more often than they gloom up over the accidents of fate. A skilled storyteller, Shute makes his combat scenes exciting and his love-in-bloom scenes tender, peppers both with Hitchcocky suspense. In his 18th novel, Nevil Shute, onetime Royal Navy lieutenant-commander, proves again that he is one of the most expert countermen working...
...barely adequate house. What it lacks in convenience it must make up with backstage savvy, proudly displayed by a crew of 152 electricians, carpenters ("grips"), prop men, et al. Best place from which to watch them at work is 44 feet above the stage, in the gloom of a narrow fly gallery. There, about lunchtime, Electrician Charlie Suhren started setting the lights for the first scene. As soon as his job was done, Charlie retired to a remote eyrie high in the cathedral vault of the stage, where he played solitaire until it was time to reset the lights...
...investigation of the stock market, which had some suspiciously political overtones from the start, last week turned into an out-and-out dogfight between Democrats and Republicans. G.O.P. Chairman Leonard Hall charged that Committee Member Paul Douglas of Illinois was "one of the original instigators of the gloom-and-doom attack" during the last congressional campaign, and that one of the star witnesses, Harvard's Professor John K. Galbraith, was an "oldtime New Dealing, A.D.A.-type of anti-Jeffersonian radical [who] flirted around with the customary pink fronts," and "almost wrecked" World War II's Office of Price...
Galbraith, an economic aide to Stevenson during the 1952 election campaign, was accused Monday by Capehart of being a "gloom and doom adviser" to the Presidential nominee. Capehart is the ranking Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee investigating the 18-month boom in the stock market...