Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mantas in vast flocks flap silently through pale and gloom, a nightmare vision as of witches on their way to the evil sabbath...
...similar richness of wording when she says: ". . . the lamp chimney around the urged-on lamp flame itself, spurting threads of itself and smoke stinkingly upward toward the ceiling, crimsonly stuttered inside the gloom it made like an evil tongue...
Another bright spot in the gloom is Griff Winthrop, from Canandaigua, N.Y. As Canandaigua Academy captain last year he swam everything but the breast stroke. For the Yardlings, he specializes in the 150-yard individual medley, where he has turned in a 1:44.6. Brooks professes high hopes...
...subject is a dramatic one because economics has been major news throughout 1954. As we have reported week after week, the economy of the U.S. adjusted to the "recession," moved successfully from the Korean war rate of spending to armed peace, continued to thrive and confound the "gloom peddlers" and to help support the defense structure of the entire free world. Even one of the new names for the cold war now has an economic ring: the era of "competitive coexistence" with Communism...
While the prose still gropes in feudal gloom, the three example of verse do display a rising talent. H. B. Corning's title page swipe at football ticket distribution flows neatly, and the effect is only slightly dampened by a rather inept ending. Lack of a punchline is also the principal fault of his verse-captions for a two-page spread on football weekends. The redeeming features of these two layouts are Hill's cartoons. Another such display, Ah, Radcliffe Girl, suffers conversely; Fletcher's verse is clever and light, but most of the drawings, by J. G. Marcos...