Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hocker, one of the alltime great American nudists, is still out there in the nude. But he is not smiling and carefree, the way you would imagine a nudist to be. At 60, Mel sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn. Forlorn because just outside Mel's screen door, his own twelve-acre nudist club-the Oakdale Guest Ranch-is going silently to seed in the dry heat of the San Bernardino Mountains. In fact, the club's membership in two years has plummeted from 300 to 60 couples...
...season for that glum annual speculation: Will the nation's cities erupt in racial violence? As temperatures climb and hundreds of thousands of youths find themselves jobless in the ghetto streets, this year the tinder is drier than it has been since the fiery spring of 1968. While the urban ghettos have seemed quiet for a long time, it was plain all along that there was discouragement, if not despair, beneath the surface, and that violent anger could again erupt if conditions failed to improve...
...again when Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, a freshman widely viewed as a conservative, uttered his no-even though Fellow Texan John Connally had been assigned to coax a yes from him. Heads bowed over their tally sheets, Jackson and Washington's other SST proponent, Democrat Warren Magnuson, looked glum. Proxmire's fist shot up again when Cooper showed that Nixon's appeal had not influenced him; he voted against the SST. Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who owes a huge debt to labor for its support in his presidential race, nevertheless cast his vote against the funds...
These characters all seem to be trapped in an unlucky cocktail party that everyone senses is a dud evening. Their voices whine, wane and falter until the grim last line and title of the play reduces everyone to glum silence...
...history, the Joffrey (founded in 1956) has always had a nervous, half-improvised air about it, which may reflect the fact that it has no superstars and has been plagued by a distressingly high turnover in personnel. Last month, midway through its fall season at Manhattan's glum, ungraceful City Center, the company abruptly dismissed its fiery Spanish lead dancer, Luis Fuente; after several months of differences, Fuente irked management by suddenly and arbitrarily departing from the choreography in a meticulous Joffrey revival of Leonide Massine's classic, The Three-Cornered...