Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chesterton accused Shaw of the gloom of a general Puritanism, and this naturally rankled. The weakness of the Puritan, especially of the Shavian kind, is his dangerous levity and cheerfulness, the merry, practical streak which evades the ungovernable tumult of feeling. The theory that the Life Force was driving on and on was felt by his audiences to be an escape from the crucifying emotional matter of the gains and losses. One more dazzling Irishman had talked himself out of life into the heavens like a whizzing rocket and had come down dead and extinct like the stick. One more...
Capp loves them, each and every one. Which is not to say that they please him; they reduce him to a frenzy of rage and exasperation-punctuated with hoots of laughter. In moments of gloom he is certain that this ubiquitous medley is on the brink of ruining 1) the world in general and 2) Al Capp in particular. In such moods his conversation often implies that he is a sort of modern General Custer, facing hordes of murderous madmen and cut off from civilization with no weapon more deadly than India...
Overnight, Democrats were plunged into deepest gloom. Meeting in Rochester's Hotel Seneca last week, convention delegates glumly went through the motions of approving the ticket their bosses had chosen for them. Their nominee for governor was to be Representative Walter Lynch, an able but colorless six-term Bronx Congressman with an undeviating New and Fair Deal record. Facing the press, State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick bravely discussed his qualifications...
Director Mark Robson's accent on gloom, the script's blurry counterfeit of the novel's hero and Actor Granger's lack of depth and force all combine to produce an effect which is neither dramatic nor provocative, but merely overpoweringly monotonous...
...week (some $5,000 less than the average half-hour TV network drama show), McCleery solved the problem of sets by not having any. "If we need a wall, we just let the absence of light stand for a wall," he explains. In the resulting gloom, his cameramen have been known to crawl around on hands and knees, with matches or flashlights, to find their camera positions. But, though the staging may be dark, the actors are highlighted. "I'm trying to paint pictures with faces," says McCleery. "You can only do it by getting so close that...