Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse: three glum Dutch uncles dominated the tone of German literature in the first half of the 20th century. The first two were world-famous figures-Hauptmann as a grim Grossvater of a social realism (The Weavers), Mann as a laboriously brilliant intellectual who wrote the era's most imposing novel of ideas (The Magic Mountain). Hesse, who died in 1962, was little known outside Central Europe, even after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Queen from her official residence, the Petersberg Hotel on the heights of the Siebengebirge, across the Rhine to Bonn. Clearly, the Germans were hoping for more than the genteel reserve that England expects of its Queen. The mass-circulation Bild Zeitung ran three photos of Elizabeth's glum face and begged, "Please smile more, Your Majesty...
...show came on Thursday, outside the state capitol. There, blue-hel-meted state troopers and green-helmet-ed Alabama conservation and liquor-enforcement officers were strung out in glum lines, blocking entry to the building. Inside, Governor George Wallace peeked warily through Venetian blinds, occasionally stared through binoculars, and muttered, "That's quite a crowd...
Premier Levi Eshkol was as conscious as anyone of the gravity of the matter as he rose to introduce the government's motion. Pressing logic on the glum Deputies who sat before him, he insisted that formal ties with West Germany would not only amount to a significant defeat for Israel's Arab enemies, but also would strengthen Israel economically and speed the day when it could win associate membership in the Common Market. "This is a struggle between heart and head," declared Eshkol. "Let us say that it is wise-hearted to go ahead with...
...like Professor Higgins, you frequently ask yourself, "Why can't a woman be more like a man?" and go on to mumble that men are decent, noble, honest, thoroughly square, and ready to buck you up whenever you are glum, then A Woman is a Woman will traumatize the hell...