Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole world to read. (You and your instructions that everything should be burned. Hah!)" The old man is not content simply to refute the younger Kafka's charges. He turns self-defense into the art of attack: "And you sitting there at meals always with a pale, miserable, glum face, not a word to say for yourself, picking at your food...You haven't forgotten that I used to hold up the newspaper so as not to have to see that. You bear a grudge. You've told everybody. But you don't think about what...
...that helps, but it does. When bored, see the movie Bringing Up Baby. When in despair, dress to the nines. I often wear a white shirt to work when I want to pit elegance against the fates. You might try that. (Do you own a white shirt?) When glum, call home...
...process the actors have unlocked, as well, the wild humor ("I laughed a lot when I wrote the play") that was also integral to Miller's first imaginings, yet was somehow lost to memory and lost on revivalists, who have mistaken glum sobriety for high seriousness. On the night of Feb. 10, 1949, when Salesman opened on Broadway the first time, Arthur Kennedy, the original Biff, recalls wandering around in a daze between acts, encountering Miller, and asking him how he thought the play was going. "The issue is not in doubt," the playwright firmly replied...
...widow's son bursts out, "This is not what we eat." When Henna gazes at the woman he believes he loves, he thinks, "You are like an open book, always open to the wrong pages, revealing information no one is prepared for." Occasions like these easily give a glum and sometimes predictable story the air of authenticity and consequence, and suggest that, for first novelists, there may still be no place like home...
...coffee. Without understanding very much of what is said, the family enjoys the conversation of the guests, who go to bed singing and wake up holding their heads. Gray, brown and glum are the colors of the city, but the citizens are certainly more cheerful than the apartment projects in which many of them reside...