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Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, whose official utterances are usually the occasion for deep parliamentary gloom, last week brought a note of cheer to the House of Commons. During the first three months of 1950, Cripps reported, Britain and the rest of the sterling area had chalked up a dollar surplus of $40 million more than ECAid; it was the first time since war's end that the sterling area had been out of the red, and few M.P.s could repress their, cheers...
...patients in Belle-Vista Sanatorium, on the northwestern edge of Philadelphia, went to bed one night last week in their usual atmosphere of medieval gloom. For the most violent, bed was a hollowed-out slab of concrete and a pallet in a small barricaded ward or a private cubicle. Some were shackled to the concrete with straps and locks. The moderately violent slept on cots and were restrained with leather straps. The merely senile and harmlessly demented slept unfettered...
Nowhere was there any hint of Renoir's own hardships. Although he spent the last 25 years of his life fighting a losing battle with constant illness, no personal gloom ever disfigured or darkened the 4,000 canvases he completed before his death in 1919. When a stuffy teacher, annoyed by his high spirits, once said sardonically, "You seem to take painting as fun," Renoir quickly replied: "If painting were not fun to me, I should certainly...
France's Jean Chauvel was perturbed by Broadway's outbursts of pessimisanthro-py, e.g., Death of a Salesman, preferred the gloom of museums to the gloom of theaters and the zephyrs of chamber music to the hurricanes of opera. China's Dr. P. C. Chang thought Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics were delightfully fresh but could not pay the same compliment to the Metropolitan Opera's chorus...
...mile from Transport House, a Tory celebration at the Savoy Hotel was plunged in gloom. Champagne, opened for toasts, stood on the tables going flat...