Word: glumly
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...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...
...World War II. The New Deal, says Reich, was based on high-minded attempts at reform, but instead of producing an altered democracy it simply created more rules and regulations. The eventual result was the Corporate State. An evolving byproduct has been Reich's Consciousness II. The overridingly glum characteristic of Consciousness II people is the resigned belief that man must suppress his individuality and improve the world by working through those burgeoning, inextricably allied institutions: Industry and Government...
Jacques Yves Cousteau, the renowned underwater explorer, has covered 155,000 miles of sea on film-making and oceanographic expeditions during the past 3½-years. Last week in Monte Carlo, he summed up what he had seen in glum, blunt terms: "The oceans are in danger of dying. The pollution is general...