Word: glooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schiele's paintings are anything but pleasant. His people (see color) are angular and knobby-knuckled, sometimes painfully stretched, sometimes grotesquely foreshortened. His colors are dark and murky, and his landscapes and cityscapes seem swallowed in gloom. But he painted some of the boldest and most original pictures of his time, and even after nearly half a century, the tense, tormented world he put on canvas has lost none of its fascination...
...single statistic has cast more gloom over-or caused more talk about-the state of the economy than the weekly operating rate of the steel industry. When the rate, expressed as a percentage of the total capacity of the industry, started to drop last winter, it stirred the first major doubts about the course of business; its failure to rise has amplified recession fears. Last week the rate was scheduled at 51.7% of capacity, the lowest level for a nonholiday week...
...touring the Republican strongholds of southern Illinois, Nixon arrived by plane in Davenport, Iowa and got the biggest lift of the week. It was Dwight Eisenhower's pungent political war cry, and Nixon, watching Ike on TV from his hotel room, recovered from a good deal of his gloom. He hurried right out to Davenport's Masonic Auditorium, where a Republican crowd of more than 3,000 had heard the President's speech on big-screen TV. The President, said Nixon, spoke "with great eloquence and conviction tonight. He spoke much too generously about my qualifications." Then...
...into New York City for three days of conferences and huddles in his Waldorf-Astoria suite prior to his TV debate. Not only was Kennedy surging in the big-vote eastern states and winning adulation in the streets, but the Nixon camp itself was showing its first signs of gloom and discouragement. Gone was the confident prediction that Nixon would win or lose in one big sweep-the win to be based, hopefully, on his clear superiority in leadership of the cold war battle. Instead, the Nixon forces were regrouping for a dogged stateby-state battle for votes, prepared...
...Berlin there was gloom over the drift of events. Last week Mayor Brandt, who has always in the past opposed big-power conferences on Berlin because the West can only give something away, endorsed Macmillan's new summit call on the ground that a confrontation is needed before his city is nibbled to death. Now that Macmillan and Khrushchev have practically named the date, Berliners look for some sort of crisis soon after the inauguration of the next U.S. President...