Word: glum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even this might have been amusing if the script were not so doggedly glum. In Act I, the President glooms about being in the White House, little-boy-blues-singing his way through such laments as It Gets Lonely in the White House. All through Act II, the ex-President glooms about being out of the White House, dosing himself with musical pep pills (You Need a Hobby). Having opted for sentiment instead of satire, Mr. President should have been rousingly rah-rah; instead, it is mostly nahnah...
...Pale and glum, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan listened in silence as leaders of the Old Dominions and the new nations of Africa and Asia challenged their onetime imperial ruler's right to decide her own future. Cried Jamaica's ebullient Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante: "The Treaty of Rome is like a surgeon's knife thrust into the body of the Commonwealth, cutting off one member from another, dividing one friend from another." One of the angriest tirades of all came from Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who warned: "We have spent 100 years resisting...
...National Incomes Commission ("Nicky") to supplement the government's new National Economic Development Council ("Neddy"). Jointly, these bodies, whose actual authority is undefined, would act as anti-inflation watchdogs, try to continue the unpopular "pay pause" by seeking to tie wages to productivity. From the glum rows of Tory M.P.s came hardly a cheer as their leader concluded: "We intend to carry on and complete our work...
...chartered DC-6 roared down the runway, bound for St. Louis, the atmosphere inside was glum enough: the staggering Cardinals had just dropped a doubleheader to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It quickly got worse. Just 30 seconds after takeoff, a portside engine conked out, and Cardinal ballplayers stared tensely at the feathered prop. Only Stan Musial seemed unruffled. Grinning from ear to ear, he turned to a teammate: "I can see the headline now. CARDINAL PLANE CRASHES -MUSIAL LONE SURVIVOR...
East Germany's worsening economic situation was reported in a remarkably frank session of the Communist Party's Central Committee. Goals for the seven-year economic plan were sharply reduced and the public warned to expect further belt-cinching. Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht, in a long, glum speech plastered over more than two pages of the party newspaper, Neues Deutschland, blamed the persistent shortage of consumer goods on "citizens of every stratum of our society who take more out of the pot than they put into...