Word: glooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...braving 100° temperatures, gathers in a riverside park. The featured speaker leans into the microphone for emphasis: "The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America." The crowd cheers. "Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy...
...political vacuum, but the air is being sucked out." Yet he also warned that "their decline is not yet marked by the rise of anyone else's fortunes." Under those conditions, the Sandinistas will probably remain in power for the foreseeable future, but the pall of gloom over Nicaragua is likely to grow deeper...
...clever characters in the book do not seem to balance with Giles' weighty gloom. It is hard to see the world, so to speak, through a blind man's eyes, and hard to make funny stories with happy endings out of morose ideas. Wise Virgin's cleverness just cannot buoy up its hero's dead weight...
...budget message early last year, Feldstein and Stockman helped persuade the President, over objections from the supply-siders, to propose a contingency tax designed to boost revenues in 1985 if the deficits were still too high. Feldstein's austere outlook and recommendations earned him the nickname "Dr. Gloom...
White American writers tended to end their books and their characters' lives as if there were no better existence for which to struggle The gloom of defeat is thick...