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...relief, then, to enter one of the sound stages, to slide open a heavy iron door and step into cool darkness. The gloom is thick, palpable, and you are aware of vast spaces above you. Gradually, as you become accustomed to the artificial dusk, it takes form. Cables as thick as your arm snake over the floor and up the walls, black and viny. High up, just below a barely discernible ceiling, banks of unused lights cluster like hard dark fruits. And you are aware that this shadowy jungle is alive; figures appear and disappear, slipping swiftly through the darkness...
Lost Uplift. None of the theories, however, explain why this year's un-festive gloom clings only to Munich and other Bavarian cities. In the Rhineland, the freewheeling Karneval was going strong last week, as noisy and popular as ever. Tickets to Sitzungen (cabaret entertainments) were sold out; dances were crowded, and in normally somnolent Bonn the federal government and city administration started closing down last week as celebrating civil servants took to the streets. Seeking to explain the difference, some Germans theorized that wine-drinking Rhinelanders are more lighthearted than stolid, beer-drinking Bavarians. Mimchner...
Britain labored under a Dickensian midwinter gloom last week. Off went the garish neons of Piccadilly Circus. After twilight, Big Ben could be heard but not seen. Buckingham Palace was lit by candles and hand torches. Millions of Londoners went to and from work beneath dimmed streetlights. Thirty crews of firemen helped rescue people who were trapped in stalled elevators. Dramatizing the nation's power shortage, one BBC newscaster had to read his bulletin by candlelight. A general synod of the Church of England also was conducted-perhaps fittingly-by candlelight, but that was not what the prelates...
...that they cut back on welfare, stop the busing, "do something about the war," balance the budget, improve the quality of public education and get the Federal Government to mind its own business. They do not see many candidates who seem likely to do all those things and their gloom deepens. "All I want," says Miami Drawbridge Tender Peter Rozema, "is someone who won't give me a screwing." "We all seem to have the blahs," says Ken Bleakly, president of the Rollins College student body. "We need a national purpose and a candidate of honesty and virtue. Muskie...
...Rooms of Gloom...