Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stronger about this point was Indiana's Senator Capehart, who fought bitterly with Fulbright during the hearings. Filing a minority report along with three other Republican Senators (Ohio's Bricker, Utah's Bennett and Maryland's Beall), Capehart accused the Democrats of bringing forth a gloom-and-doom report, aimed at damaging the Republican Administration. The real reasons for the rise in stock prices, wrote Capehart, were not "iniquitous speculation," but the higher rates of production, and the stability that the Eisenhower Administration has brought about...
Crimson intramural champions dispelled some of the wide-spread gloom recently pervading in varsity ranks by annexing the Harkness Trophy awarded annually for House-College competition against Yale...
...Whitney's show underlined a curious gloom in U.S. sculptors today. Mostly they weld metal figures of a tormented yet unsympathetic sort. Forbiddingly invested with knobs, prickles and outright spikes, the figures imprison a bit of free air and defy anyone to invade it. David Hare's sculptures were a happy exception to the grim parade. Long dour as the rest, Hare has now invented a new and carefree impressionism. His Sunrise creates an effect of light and loftiness out of a rock, some steel bars and cut bronze sheets tinted with gold. Another exception was Richard Lippold...
...prevailing gloom is laced with latent excitement, for he fills his brush strokes with nervous energy and uses crude but dramatic color schemes involving generous clouds of black and ultramarine which emit red and white flashes. Composition is perhaps his strong point: like most of his canvases. Hultberg's Airport (see cut) looks elaborate as a house of cards, yet solid as a concrete runway...
...party of Czechs and Poles fleeing the Nazis in a German plane. After that, she is seized by a plausible, if not entirely convincing, urge for expiation. Despite its sad undertones, The Breaking Wave is a novel in which the characters chin up to life more often than they gloom up over the accidents of fate. A skilled storyteller, Shute makes his combat scenes exciting and his love-in-bloom scenes tender, peppers both with Hitchcocky suspense. In his 18th novel, Nevil Shute, onetime Royal Navy lieutenant-commander, proves again that he is one of the most expert countermen working...