Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fell to the ground as a cold wind blew across the field. Harvard had just lost its final game of the 1981 season to Dartmouth, 2-0. The faces of the Harvard field hockey team are filled with disappointment as they head towards the locker room. The glum mood continues to hang over the team as the players change. Sara breaks the silence with one of her patented jokes and gets the team laughing and smiling again...
Like most Great Society efforts, Follow Through survived on a year-to-year basis, largely because concerned parents lobbied for its funding. This fall, at their annual conference in Ypsilanti, Mich., Follow Through directors were glum. Though this year's program managed to survive Reaganomic budget cutting and win authorization for $45 million for fiscal 1982, federal money is due to dry up in 1984. When the states take charge of federal funds through block grants, Follow Through may fall by the wayside...
ANYONE CLAMORING for more "traditional Shakespeare after all the radical artsy-fartsiness in these part should zip over to the American Shakespeare Theatre's touring Othello--and be damned. For this glum and unimaginatively "straight" production, with the aid of a flamboyant English directorial hand, skews and disfigures the original play far more effectively than the most startling new metaphor or outrageous directorial noodling. Tom Stoppard could not have done it better...
...human lover, has given up a promising career as an architect to teach fifth-graders in the New York City public school system; he thinks of his students as "a kind of early warning system for what's next in the world." Meanwhile, their friend Nicole feels glum over the prospect of another abortion, her sixth. She would like to have the baby and marry Diego, her Cuban lover, but doing so would cause her father to revoke the TWA pass that she uses to jet wherever her spirit moves her. Kirk, Jeffrey's twin brother, is taking...
...NATO countries, he said, were "in the first rank of our allies." At the same time, Mauroy sharply condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and warned against intervention in Poland-a statement that reduced the government's four Communist ministers, who had been applauding earlier remarks, to glum and awkward silence...