Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie does not offer any solution to the problem it poses beyond leaving it to "the progressive forces of our time." Says Director Bunuel: "There is nothing imagined in this film. It is all merely true." But, in its unrelieved gloom and its total sociological despair, The Young and the Damned sometimes seems as one-dimensional and as far short of the truth as a lurid propaganda poster. Typical sequence: the body of a murdered boy being carted on muleback to a public garbage dump while his mother unknowingly passes...
...companion--by a parallel tension and relaxation of the musical line. When You Are Old And Gray, based on a poem by Yeats, is a beautifully conceived work, simple in structure and poignantly expressed. Monkeys, seemed not totally successful in expressing the loneliness of two creatures in the gloom of a "beast shop." The drabness of its musical tone is probably intentional and may become more meaningful after the song has been heard a few times...
Exaggerated prophecies of gloom had surrounded Dean Acheson's departure for the London and Lisbon parleys. Last week, reporting on his trip over a radio-TV hookup, Acheson countered with an exaggerated picture of sunlight and good cheer. Said he: "The past two weeks have been a time of historic decision . . . They have brought us to the dawn of a new day in Europe." Acheson based his claim on "five major accomplishments" of the London and Lisbon meetings...
...Vials of Gloom? Some of his acquaintances could not believe that his idiosyncrasies were genuine: "I always felt Chesterton was an actor," one of them told Maisie Ward. "He played a part and dressed a part." And when O.K. became a Catholic, even G.B.S. was shaken into protesting: "This is going too far." On the other hand, his more extravagant admirers regarded him as a pure & simple saint-a man "taught by the Holy Ghost...
Biographer Ward's own opinion is that Chesterton's "ready acceptance of life's normal pleasures" rules him out of saintly ranks. But it does not put him among those who, precisely because they "fail to reach sanctity . . . pour out upon us the vials of their gloom." Chesterton ranks, she believes, among the "spiritual geniuses" of the human race-"to which," as G.K. once observed, "so many of my readers belong...