Word: gloomier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delights of this world, Borges implies, are to be found in the concrete; all the disasters, in crude abstractions that crush men's senses and make them cruel. Such a theme wound its way through Borges' earlier, labyrinthine short stories. His present pieces are simpler and gloomier. They are filled with a sense of death, of inexorably passing time. But there is always relief in an image, as in a visit to an old coach house where everything is in decay...
...jubilant Jimmy, there were gloomier times just around the corner. In Chattanooga, Tenn., this week he goes to trial on charges of jury tampering-the sixth federal indictment brought against him in six years...
...closer to $60 billion instead of at $51 billion. Industrial production may have jumped 21% in the past three years, but factories are still operating at 87% of capacity-five percentage points overall below their most efficient output level. Happy though he was to see his earlier and gloomier predictions undone, Walter Heller still says of 1963: "It was a year of split-level performance...
...election until next June, Tories say wistfully, Wilson's luster may have dimmed and their own limp fortunes revived. But even allowing for Labor's proved capacity for plucking defeat from the jaws of victory, most Conservatives last week agreed that their prospects have seldom been gloomier...
Some delegates were even gloomier for the prospects of the service corps in the South. They argued that any legislation which did not give the states veto power over local projects would never pass Congress...