Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that case, most scholars agree with historian Friedrich Glum, who wrote in 1962 that "without Hitler the development of Germany would have taken a different course." Hence, the question history buffs frequently pose to one another: "Knowing what you know, would you have killed Hitler if you had a chance to do so before he came to power...
...personal plot lines that Vollmann imagines to be parallel simply are not. One of the former is the death in 1846 of Sir John Franklin and all the members of his British navy Arctic expedition, sent to find the Northwest Passage. Vollmann relates that event to a glum romance in present time between one of the author's fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes a two-week trek to the north magnetic pole...
...musing about why a movie that wants to be a funny social commentary -- the press kit hopefully evokes the names of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges -- is shot in the impersonal expressionist manner that was literally foreign to these American masters, a style that was favored by glum and self-important German directors like Fritz Lang...
While reform candidates shrank from direct contact with the people, offering only boring TV speeches and glum-faced round-table discussions on esoteric subjects during the election campaign, Zhirinovsky held regular Saturday- afternoon street-corner rallies drawing crowds that numbered in the thousands. For every constituency, he designed a tailor-made message. The military received pledges of a resurrected and expanded Russian Empire. Fixed- income pensioners and students were promised a decent standard of living. Crime-weary citizens were assured that gang leaders would be executed. Meanwhile, foreigners were offered up as scapegoats, and Jews were blamed for provoking anti...
Despite all the investigative talent, however, the mood was glum. Arson is a crime that erases its own evidence; a hundred leads may not make an arrest. Moreover, even if Fedbuster were caught and actually admitted to having set some of the fires, he could not have set them...