Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, a resolute Tennessean named Welby Lee has searched for the hit-run driver who hurtled out of the gloom on a rural road and killed his father on New Year's Eve, 1944. With only a broken bumper guard as solid evidence, Lumber Merchant Lee, now 51, traced scores of cars, braced dozens of suspects and traveled 100,000 miles before he caught up last summer with Grover Jones, 55, now an Indianapolis handyman. Lee amassed 153 pages of circumstantial evidence, and Jones was indicted for second-degree murder...
Stanislavski, who directed the first serious production of The Seagull, thought the play was a tragedy, and later directors have tended to adopt this interpretation even though Chekhov himself called it a comedy. By now, in fact, the "gloom" of Chekhov has become such a joke that any less than perfect production of his plays can easily make them seem farcical...
...week he was scheduled into small rural towns across the nation, carried on with grim determination to do his mediocre best, until the spark had gone, the acid evaporated, and only a handful of home-town cronies aboard the silver-and-blue campaign plane were left to dispel the gloom. "I know exactly what I'm going to do if I lose," he quipped to a friend, "but I don't know what the hell...
After that, Black became a lonely dissenter, with only Douglas for an ally. Murphy and Rutledge died in 1949, and their successors-Tom C. Clark and Sherman Minton-consistently disagreed with him. Black's wife died in 1951, plunging him into gloom for six years, until he married his secretary (and quickly taught her tennis). Amid all this, Black was alarmed at the Court's bend-over-backward opinions during the McCarthy-era prosecution of real or suspected Communists. One after another, his dissents contained such phrases as "I regret, deeply regret," and "this weird, debilitating interpretation...
...Last Analysis, a first play by Novelist Saul Bellow, is part Jewish-family comedy, part psychoanalytical cliché, part spoof of psychoanalysis-and all claptrap. An ex-TV comic known as Bummy (Sam Levene) re-enacts his life from womb to gloom with total traumatic recall, including toilet training, sibling rivalry, and a recurring dream that he shares his bed with a white sow. Says Bummy's lawyer: "He's like a junkie on thought...