Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next room. As the conference opened, bells tolled all over Germany, students marched silently through cities, people gathered to pray. A Teletype connected Der Alte's mountaintop with his lieutenants in Geneva. Bulganin's statement that the unification of Germany could wait had plunged them in gloom, but that gloom had been expected. Eisenhower's statement-as it reached the public through a British briefing officer-sounded as if the West were getting ready to offer Russia a security pact while leaving Germany divided. That night Adenauer drafted a stern note to the West...
...naming Russell the "dictator of the enterprise." Russell drafted a 1,500-word statement and sent it winging about the world for comment and signature. The world will not long remember Dictator Russell (or Sponsor Einstein) for anything that appeared in the statement, which was a dreary mishmash of gloom-laden clich...
...opera is a daring work from many points of view: it has no plot, but consists of a series of gloom-ridden episodes, recollections, even a bleak little prison play in pantomime; 16 of its 17 singing roles are men; it contains a minimum of tunes and some very strange harmonic goings-on indeed. And yet it is a strong work from overture to the final hymn to freedom, and is even gripping in three long narratives by the prisoners against a background of unnerving orchestral fantasy. Over all hangs an eerie, Kafka-like haze that results partly from...
During the adjustment after the end of the Korean war, a dip in employment brought a chorus of doom and gloom. But never before has the U.S. gone through a postwar economic adjustment with so little disturbance. The number of U.S. residents now gainfully employed (62,703,000) is the highest ever for this season of the year. Unemployment (2,489,000) is a regional rather than a national problem, and is centered largely in chronically sick industries, e.g., textiles and coal...
Passers-by stop under a glittering Gold Coast marquee that spells out "Metropole Cafe," peer into the gloom to see where all the noise is coming from. What they see looks like an alley lined with mirrors. On one side is a 110-ft.-long bar, on the other a cluster of dime-size tables. Behind the bar, on a narrow, chest-high platform, is a line of musicians, cash registers at their toes and microphones at their shoulders. The Metropole, it turns out, is one of the sturdiest Northern outposts of an obsolescent brand of music: Dixieland jazz...