Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that despite his politically successful fling with the easy-money, deficit-spending ways of Keynesian economics, he has returned with some relief to that "oldtime religion," with its emphasis on gradualism, balanced budgets and monetary restraint. Yet the message is not likely to dispel the public's thickening gloom about the economy...
Leadership usually begins with a vision of success, a glimmering intuition that solutions are possible. Now, as Critic George Steiner has said, "we no longer experience history as ascendant." At the same time, there seems to be something naggingly excessive about such gloom, out of proportion with the great amount of skill, intelligence and energy that exists in America and elsewhere. Even while the largest problems (including the largest cities) seem to have grown unmanageable, there have been countless new examples of leadership, imagination and dedication on a lesser scale: in smaller communities, in many organizations, in business. The gallery...
Small wonder that there is more gloom -and unemployment-on Wall Street than since the Depression...
They gather each morning at dawn, waiting to see if the boats coming in are empty or full. Crewmen, captains, shipowners, processors and union representatives huddle in the gloom on fishing piers all along the New England seacoast. Like generations of fishermen before them, many of these weather-lined men work grueling twelve-hour shifts in biting winds and high seas for days on end. Unlike their predecessors, however, they are catching fewer fish every year-which is one reason that U.S. fish prices are rising so fast...
...concedes wearily, later that day. "I talked with some kid and he said I don't think that anybody incidentally would care about anybody infiltrating the peace movement that was demonstrating against the President, particularly on the war in Vietnam," he adds, a ray of hope breaking through his gloom. "Do you think so?" "No!" John Dean says bravely...