Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nowhere was there any hint of Renoir's own hardships. Although he spent the last 25 years of his life fighting a losing battle with constant illness, no personal gloom ever disfigured or darkened the 4,000 canvases he completed before his death in 1919. When a stuffy teacher, annoyed by his high spirits, once said sardonically, "You seem to take painting as fun," Renoir quickly replied: "If painting were not fun to me, I should certainly...
France's Jean Chauvel was perturbed by Broadway's outbursts of pessimisanthro-py, e.g., Death of a Salesman, preferred the gloom of museums to the gloom of theaters and the zephyrs of chamber music to the hurricanes of opera. China's Dr. P. C. Chang thought Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics were delightfully fresh but could not pay the same compliment to the Metropolitan Opera's chorus...
...mile from Transport House, a Tory celebration at the Savoy Hotel was plunged in gloom. Champagne, opened for toasts, stood on the tables going flat...
...come due. By now the average browser has collected six to ten different reading lists and notes to first lectures and his head is buzzing with requirements and conflicts of requirements. Perhaps one of the following courses meeting this morning will be the saving ray of light in the gloom...
Barring rain, snow, hail, sleet, gloom of night, or incompetence in high places, every student will soon see his grades. But the man who wants his bluebook back may find that some departments won't let him do more than peck...