Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoppers despite last week's lifting of the Arab oil embargo; and Watergate has produced a morbid epidemic of doubt about the country's future. "Inflation is no longer the sole reason for pessimistic expectations," says University of Michigan Economist Jay Schmiedeskamp. "At least half of the gloom comes from Watergate and the energy crisis. The Government plays a large role in the economy, and the people have lost faith in the Government's ability...
...justification they cite his storytelling powers. Faced with an important question like "Who was Legs Mortimer?" only Wodehouse could reply, "That was precisely what Angus McTavish wanted to know when he saw him blowing kisses at Evangeline Brackett from the clubhouse canteen," thereby ensuring a rapt and docile audience. Gloom is kept down to the essential minimum and balanced by modest quantities of sex and violence, as in The Salvation of George Mackintosh, in which the beautiful Celia attempts to murder him (George) with, of all things, her niblick. (He had. after all, addressed her while she was addressing...
Human Nature. But what takes Heilbroner beyond 1974's gloom-as-usu-al is his rediscovery of and pessimism about human nature. Old-style progressives, if they accepted the concept of human nature at all, used to regard it as either essentially good or infinitely correctible. But Heilbroner now doubts that mankind can be brought to care enough about the future to do what is necessary to save the present - especially as regards self-denial. Can 20th century civilization give up the "ethos of 'science' " (not to mention the work ethic) and for sake the now monstrous...
...chewing on his tail. The Crimson review in 1939 also went for Gone With the Wind (which has recently had a big revival) and for The Roaring Twenties (which still comes around now and again), "a saga of liquor and love that rolls through that fabulous decade into the gloom of the thirties." And the review highly recommends Bachelor Mother, in which Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and a jitterbug contest "all add up to delightful fare...
...response given three visiting orchestras from the West last year, the London Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Peking has launched an attack on the decadent composers who are the mainstay of the classical repertory. Beethoven, said the newspaper, was a "German capitalist," while Schubert's gloom resulted from his oppression by Austria's feudal rulers. If he had been a good Marxist, Schubert would of course have finished the "Unfinished" Symphony. Mozart is scarcely worth considering. Nothing he ever wrote compares with The White-Haired Girl, the propaganda-laden Chinese revolutionary ballet...