Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really want to appreciate the conundrum of power these days, just watch David Letterman on any night when he wincingly pronounces himself "the most powerful man in American broadcasting." Hearing the way he wraps that phrase in a cloud, its own microclimate of irony and gloom, who would be tempted to join him in the upper echelons? Whether he's the most powerful man in broadcasting is not even debatable. That title automatically goes to one of the network heads. What is certain is how badly he wishes he still held his old crown: most influential. That's what...
...California conclave, where the audience devoured his assault on "generational malpractice." Said he: "Without unpopular reforms...the future of the American experiment stands in grave jeopardy." His credentials make him a credible spokesman for Perot's issues. During his 12 years in Colorado's statehouse, Lamm was called Governor Gloom because of his warnings about the need to tame entitlement programs such as Medicare...
Amid the mounting gloom, Newt Gingrich remains stymied. The man who energized House Republicans has been in his own private funk since January, after Clinton refused to do a balanced-budget deal on G.O.P. terms and Gingrich had no fallback plan ready. When Gingrich inches into the spotlight lately, it's under the cover of lovable critters. To mark Earth Day last Monday he appeared at the Atlanta zoo with an African elephant. He ended the week on the Tonight Show, cradling a piglet. If it's all a bit Marlin Perkins, esteemed gray eminence of Wild Kingdom...
...Japan's secret formula does not work anymore. Neither its economy nor its society enjoys a special dispensation from misery. When President Clinton arrives in Tokyo this week, he will find a country that has undergone five years of economic gloom, whose society is experiencing unprecedented strain and whose political system is fracturing. In a recent poll covering 10,000 adults, 54% of the respondents said they felt Japan was becoming worse off. Faced with all its adversity, Japan is at a crucial point in its postwar history, and the direction it takes will be vitally important, not only...
...World War II, which in turn affected Harvard in unprecedented ways. Particularly, the pleasant, calm and noncompetitive atmosphere combined with the prospect of a guaranteed safe and prosperous future, which had dominated Harvard for more than a century, were vanishing at a fast pace and being replaced by the gloom of a rough and uncertain future...