Word: glumly
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Faced with this glum news, Labor Department spokesmen abandoned all effort to blame hurricanes or strikes for the stubborn persistence of large-scale unemployment. The plain fact was that, despite its overall strength, the U.S. economy was failing to perform one of its important functions: providing enough jobs to go around. And in the minds of many observers the dark suspicion was growing that the situation was never going to improve until the nation faced the fact that it was undergoing a technological revolution comparable to that of the 18th century, and gave higher priority than...
...more important sense, however, Breathless is saved by its lightness. Michelle is funny because he is casual; self-pity would make him unbearable. And the absence of glum moralizing keeps the dialogue hot and amusing. Godard's sense of timing and sequence never Its up, while he abjures that false sense of "spontaneity," which so many young directors (Cassavetes is particularly guilty) pass off for honesty...
...which becomes first dull and then comical, the book's real shock value is not moral but intellectual: what is baffling is not the sex but the snake oil it is cooked in. Cancer is not pornography in the usual sad style of that genre; it lacks the glum and oleaginous manner, the pseudoanthropological pedantry. Miller sets up obscene tableaux vivants but moves among them like a circus clown with a bladder full of hot air. With the real pornographer, the sex circus is too solemn for comic treatment. Miller's tone at times suggests that a committee...
...President Kennedy reckoned it, the cost of living in cold war had never been higher: in all, it added up to $1.9 billion in new requests, on top of the 1962 federal budget-with the glum promise of billions more to come in the next ten years. "The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe-Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East*-the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history . . . The adversaries of freedom did not create the revolution, nor did they...
...plants and 19 research facilities scattered across 17 countries, AMF turns out products ranging from remote-controlled toy airplanes to ICBM launching systems. Thanks to AMF's determined pursuit of diversification and growth products, its 1960 sales were $361 million, its earnings $24 million. And in the glum opening months of 1961, the company's sales and earnings hit new first-quarter highs