Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prophets of gloom can still be found under various rocks and bridges around the Square, predicting a Penn upset. Even the coaches are worried, but football coaches are a singularly paranoic breed. They claim that since the Crimson looked so good against Dartmouth, it could suffer a severe letdown against Penn as it looks forward to the Princeton game Nov.9...
...Barbirolli had been Toscanini's choice to succeed him as conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and for seven years he endured in the impossible gloom of the old man's shadow, leading an orchestra that seemed to be looking the other way. At last he went home to England to take over Manchester's Halle Orchestra, which he doggedly rebuilt from a draft-drained band of 23 to one of Britain's finest ensembles. In 1959, he returned to New York and won a thunderous sentimental welcome; the next year he announced he was pushing...
...evenings devoted to the theme that showbiz is woebiz. The latest musical fictionally disinters the early life and hard times of the late Laurette Taylor on the tank-town circuit, and mopes over her domestic ordeals with an alcoholic, footloose, hot-air impresario of a husband. Amid the encircling gloom, only Mary Martin shines with an inextinguishable light...
John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, reacted with "pure, horrid gloom" to the prospect of a new access road at the corner of the building. "I can see why they'd want it," Finley conceded; "all this pressure from Detroit and the ghastly Chevrolets they keep turning out. But it would be horrible. It would be the final victory of inhumanity...
...current play, though, may be just right for the season. It's improbable whirl of froth is a pleasant diversion from the gloom of the impending exam period