Word: glumly
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...created in room 906 of the Suffolk County Court house. For the jury man watching earnestly the partisans in the gallery had stopped rustling their literature the prosecutor was suffering quietly with his back in Edelin, the reporters had stopped taking notes, the officious court officers were sitting in glum disability, and the judge had yielded his court to an cerie silence and the imaginary proscenium of the defense table to leave the prosecution's case broken...
...Boston March Against Racism" as its organizers' (the Emergency Committee for a National Mobilization Against Racism) buttons read, or the "Freedom march," according to the student Committee for the December 14 National March Against Racism's leaflet. It's a multi-shaded crowd of a few hundred glum people. And two Rent-a-Trucks...
...offers to go alone to be arrested. He cannot, "in good faith," let others, for whom he feels a responsibility, be arrested or injured. As he talks, two black physicians attend a young man slumped on a car's hood on the far corner. Peter Pogorski is calm and glum and will be taken to the hospital for X-rays and stitches...
...Secret. Designing the acoustics in a modern concert hall is a difficult task, and results are not totally predictable. Avery Fisher (formerly Philharmonic) Hall in New York's Lincoln Center is the classic case of aural bad luck. Twelve years after its opening, it still has glum sound, despite millions of dollars spent in revisions. Two of its most distinguished visitors, the Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra, will pack up and move back to venerable Carnegie Hall next season...
...Glum economic prognostications abound, but when New York Stock Exchange Chairman James J. Needham spoke before the Economic Club of Detroit last week, his predictions were gargantuan as well as dire. Using figures based on an N.Y.S.E. study, Needham estimated that U.S. capital demands through 1985 will amount to a cumulative total of $4.7 trillion. During the same period, he argued, the economy's savings potential will only amount to a bit more than $4 trillion. The probable result: a capital shortfall of $650 billion. That figure, says Needham, "represents the projected gap between the domestic supply of investment...