Word: glumly
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Hemingway liked Plimpton, however-he even wanted to train him in Wyoming for the bout against Archie Moore-and so does everyone else who knows him. Without exception, his friends testify to his extraordinary, almost ingenuous kindness and his nearly perverse refusal ever to be glum. His whole life, in a very broad and somewhat simplified sense, is an attempt to re-create around himself the intimate, boisterous atmosphere of a boys' tree house or a college-humor magazine, where no one is ever envious and no one is ever mean. He draws his friends into his fancies...
Stein has often voiced criticism of the major forces in the market. He condemns the amateurism and greed of brokerage-house partners who took out virtually all the profits when times were good and who now have difficulty surviving when times are glum. He maintains that the New York Stock Exchange has followed rather than led the pace of change and modernization. He holds that the Securities and Exchange Commission, partly because it is understaffed, waits too long to attack some obvious problems in the securities business...
Lack of Capital. Another complaint is that some specialists "walk away from the market" and fail to keep stock prices from gyrating sharply. The specialists argue that the current market did not fall in wild, panicky drops, as some bears had expected during the glum days last spring. But there were some sharp breaks in individual stocks. In a special report made after the assassination of President Kennedy, the SEC severely criticized the specialists for failing to support the market during that difficult time...
...London's National Theater production of Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem (TIME, Feb. 2) won glowing reviews and further enhanced her reputation in England, where at 35 she is already the leading actress of her generation. All of which only left her rather numb and glum amid the flowers in her dressing room at the Old Vic. "Everybody seems to be raving about the Oscar," she told TIME Correspondent Christopher Porterfield, "but I don't think it will do me that much good...
...central ghetto-by moving sideways to new ghettos. Consider Chicago's Near West Side, now 60% nonwhite. At first glance, the five-square-mile area is dominated by the striking architecture of the University of Illinois' new Circle Campus. Closer inspection reveals a streetscape of despair: low, glum buildings, boarded-up store fronts, infrequent parks, broken curbs. True to cliché, the district's neighborhoods are walled off from one another by three separate lines of railroad tracks, the eight-lane Dan Ryan Expressway and a barge canal. Looming above all are the three 15-story apartment...