Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abubble. For 24 hours there was gloom enough to sink a Bergman tragedy, let alone a comedy. Prince talked with Actress Tammy Grimes about taking over the Johns part- a switch that would have meant a one-week delay of the opening, at a cost of $50,000. "This business is all about taking chances," Prince croaked hoarsely, "but you have to be careful of the odds." But by midweek, Johns was once again abubble. Was Prince headed for a hit, all the more gratifying because of the obstacles? Or were the New York previews portents of disaster? That remained...
...Crimson did, however, have some bright spots in the gloom of the defeat. Freshman Tom Wolf, the Harvard varsity record-holder in the 200-yd. backstroke, won the 100-yd. backstroke in 54.5 seconds to equal the Harvard freshman record...
...characters are only scan deep. Moreover, the savor seems to have gone out of his triumphs. Another Simon smash is no longer news; it would take a failure to astonish anyone, and Simon seems incapable of one. All of which drove Simon into a deep depression last year, a gloom from which he is only beginning to emerge. He is, in brief, a character in a Neil Simon play. In preparing an Essay on Simon and American humor, Kanfer found that the notes from his interview with the playwright mystically rearranged themselves into dramatic form. 2 a.m. on Third Avenue...
...recent years, the annual Christmas-week meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has been as much an occasion for acrimony and gloom as for surveys of scientific progress. The proceedings have been repeatedly-and often mindlessly-disrupted by young radicals. They have also been marked by one pessimistic report after another on man's despoliation of his home planet. Last week in Washington, D.C., at the A.A.A.S.'S 139th meeting, scientists were again subjected to dissent and despair, but this time there was also welcome relief in the form of an eloquent defense...
...Laos in 1971, and mined Haiphong last May in the face of criticism and protest in the U.S. The atmosphere around the White House was even similar to last spring's, a mood of coolness and toughness only occasionally soured by the fulminations of the "doom and gloom brigade," as the Washington press corps is called. Gambling had, in fact, become part of Nixon's international style ? to seem deliberately unpredictable, to let Hanoi, Moscow and Peking know that he was capable of almost anything, to keep them off their guard. It may be that he felt doubly confident...