Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe in the painted image, Sargent only beguiles it into a momentary suspension of disbelief. And Velasquez' reverent handling of the way light falls on objects becomes mere virtuosity in Sargent. The fortuitous manner in which Sargent's light picks his flowerlike figures out of the gloom smacks more of the theater than of life. Yet when all this has been said, it is true that no painter alive today-with the possible exception of Augustus John -could have carried off half so well what Sargent set out to do. He remains, as the Metropolitan Museum...
...League basketball coaches gazed into their collective crystal yesterday and predicted gloom for the Crimson. The final standings, they say: Dartmouth, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, Harvard and Brown...
Despite the general gloom over taxes, there were bright spots for some. University of Chicago Economist D. Gale Johnson discussed the case of the U.S. farmer: "Personal income tax does not apply to nonmoney income," and farmers have more nonmoney income, e.g., meat, eggs, vegetables, etc., than any other group...
...chill rain spread gloom over Lydd airport one morning last week as Group Captain Peter Townsend oversaw the loading of his green Renault sedan aboard an air freighter. Curious sightseers huddled near by, but the airman had no last words for them, not even a farewell wave of the hand as he himself climbed aboard the plane. A half hour later he was gone from
Actually, it is hard to avoid the pessimistic conclusion that the prophets of gloom have the figures on their side and that Harvard will not be able to reconcile expansion and continued quality. Even now, the University cannot meet certain significant challenges. The dormitories are greatly overcrowded, many lecture rooms are bulging, and laboratory space is inadequate. The cost of new Houses merely to alleviate the present room shortage is staggering, and a campaign for funds to build enough new Houses, classrooms, laboratories, and another Lamont, would absorb the University's energies for at least the next ten years. Most...