Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show are the few independent painters who highball down the middle of the road, avoiding the easy-riding ruts of sheer abstraction and mere representation. Fifty such men might have lifted the whole exhibition into brilliance; the few who are represented at Venice shine like lights in the prevailing gloom. Three of their works are reproduced opposite. Dufy's 41 pictures, dating back to 1904, prove for the umpteenth time his vintage quality. Partly crippled by arthritis, as Renoir was, he permits nothing but ease and gaiety to show in his work, the same effect that Renoir always achieved...
...team, with its new fisher-Daley stratagems, bared its muscles and thrashed hapless Middlebury College by 68 to 0 for the largest Harvard score since 1891. Undergraduate jubiliation, however, slowly died and turned to dismay as Holy Cross, Dartmouth and Princeton drubbed the Crimson on successive weekends. In the gloom overemphasis in college football. Mother Advocate, sensing crusade in the making, trudged a few yards up Plympton Street to borrow the cudgel. "Football" she said in her October issue, "may actually become professional...
...home freezers, is chased by knife-wielding fanatics. Tricked out as a ballerina or a Hindu maharanee or a toothless hillbilly, she takes her assorted lumps and pratfalls with unflagging zest and good humor. Her mobile, rubbery face reflects a limitless variety of emotions, from maniacal pleasure to sepulchral gloom. Even on a flickering, pallid TV screen, her wide-set saucer eyes beam with the massed candlepower of a lighthouse on a dark night...
Because of this doom and gloom atmosphere the scientists produce whenever they apply pencil to paper, I would not suggest reading ASF in one concentrated dose. It becomes dull after a while when the veneer of scientific plausibility and shrewd story telling loses its novelty and only the tears remain. But for all that, ASF is produced for more than just the science-fiction devotees, and taken with restraint, is a welcome relief from the heavy tomes of reading period...
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, nor locked doors, nor tightfisted undergraduates can keep these couriers from selling tickets to the postmen's ball...