Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yeatsian Gloom. Today, Toffler contends, we are all renters, all nomads. "We have not merely extended the scope and scale of change, we have radically altered its pace," he says. "We have in our time released a totally new social force-a stream of change so accelerated that it influences our sense of time, revolutionizes the tempo of daily life, and affects the very way we 'feel' the world around...
Another reason is that the Thais, like other Asians, are deeply distressed about the prospect of an almost total U.S. stand-down in Asia. Reflecting that gloom, Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman last week delivered a U.S.-baiting speech, charging that American policy is being warped by the "confusions and convulsions" of hippie and yippie culture. He added the blunt but perhaps not unreasonable observation that the U.S. "is exhibiting signs of derangement and systematic disorder...
Almost equally ignored was the fact that despite the gloss of affluence over London, and despite Manchester's massive ?250 million urban-renewal program, too much of the north-and other areas too-feels neglected by the planners in the capital. In the gloom of Glasgow tenements, the shoddy dock areas of Liverpool and in blackened, beaten-down Leeds, the shadows thicken. "People are fed up," says Liberal Candidate Willis Pickard in Edinburgh, "with being run from Westminster and Whitehall." Over the entire north, unemployment has risen from 2% four years ago to 5.2% last year. Half the unemployed...
...mild-because consumers' buying ability remains strong: almost half of those polled said their earnings have increased over the past year. But people are reluctant to make purchases because they see no sign that inflation is easing, and they are increasingly worried about unemployment. The consumers' gloom will not be dispelled, says the survey, until the Administration produces convincing evidence that it is winning the campaign against rising prices and containing the spread of unemployment...
Events surrounding the anniversary week only deepened the gloom. In two skillful ambushes along the canal, 120 Egyptian commandos killed 13 Israeli soldiers. It was scant comfort that Israeli jets replied with six days of intensive bombing, including one 14-hour dawn-to-dusk raid, or that they shot down three Egyptian planes to bring their kills since 1967 to 101 (v. losses of nine). Near the Jordan border, Arab guerrillas fired Soviet-supplied, 220-mm. Katyusha rockets into the dusty town of Beisan on three occasions, killing three ten-year-old girls and wounding 36 people, mostly children...