Word: glum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which becomes first dull and then comical, the book's real shock value is not moral but intellectual: what is baffling is not the sex but the snake oil it is cooked in. Cancer is not pornography in the usual sad style of that genre; it lacks the glum and oleaginous manner, the pseudoanthropological pedantry. Miller sets up obscene tableaux vivants but moves among them like a circus clown with a bladder full of hot air. With the real pornographer, the sex circus is too solemn for comic treatment. Miller's tone at times suggests that a committee...
...President Kennedy reckoned it, the cost of living in cold war had never been higher: in all, it added up to $1.9 billion in new requests, on top of the 1962 federal budget-with the glum promise of billions more to come in the next ten years. "The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe-Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East*-the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history . . . The adversaries of freedom did not create the revolution, nor did they...
...plants and 19 research facilities scattered across 17 countries, AMF turns out products ranging from remote-controlled toy airplanes to ICBM launching systems. Thanks to AMF's determined pursuit of diversification and growth products, its 1960 sales were $361 million, its earnings $24 million. And in the glum opening months of 1961, the company's sales and earnings hit new first-quarter highs
...obsolescence, a raucous ode to Reno and the horrors of divorce, a ponderous disquisition on man's inhumanity to man, woman and various other animals, an obtuse attempt to write sophisticated comedy, a woolly lament for the loss of innocence in American life and, above all, a glum, long (2 hr. 5 min.), fatuously embarrassing psychoanalysis of Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller and what went wrong with their famous marriage...
...novel, Jock is both hero and villain of a garrison tragedy. The tragedy begins when Jock, as acting C.O., is superseded by "a spry wee gent" (as Jock ripsnortingly describes him) "wi' tabs in place o' tits." The new colonel (John Mills) is in fact a rather glum plate of porridge, but he is just what the battalion needs on the morning after old Jock's riotous regime. He tightens up training procedures, clears out the administrative mess...