Word: glumness
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Saturday night, Jimmy and Rosalynn dined privately with Begin and his wife Aliza at the Premier's residence. This was the President's first chance to brief the Israeli on Sadat's response to the U.S. compromise proposals. When the two leaders parted after midnight, both looked glum. On Sunday, Carter attended St. Andrew's Church and later paid tribute at the Yad Vashem memorial to the 6 million Jewish victims of Nazism. Wearing a yarmulka, he placed a wreath at the memorial and observed that it was impossible to understand Israel without recognizing what was symbolized there...
...always, the ultimate victims are the nation's consumers, and last week they got more predictably glum news about inflation. Even though OPEC's price increases are only just starting to work themselves into the economy, wholesale prices leaped a full 1% in February and, just as it has for months, food led the advance...
Once her victory was assured on election night, Jane Byrne did a most uncharacteristic thing: she smiled. Next day, she did something even wilder: she spent six hours at an Elizabeth Arden salon. Around Chicago's city hall, glum party workers warned each other that life would never be quite the same...
...outlook especially glum for private colleges? A chief reason is that they must compete with public colleges, which get regular subsidies from state governments to keep tuition low. The average yearly private-college tuition is now $2,970 (not including room and board), compared with public-college tuition of $600. And there is pressure on the private schools to continue raising fees, since tuition now pays for less than half of a private-college education; gifts, endowments and Government grants must make up the difference. At Harvard, tuition, room and board charges have risen this year to $7,500. Others...
...probably caught his idea for Man and Superman from Schopenhauer. The glum philosopher held that "egotism is deeply rooted-but the species has a greater claim on the individual than the perishable individuality itself ... The growing inclination of two lovers is really already the will to live of the new individual which they can and desire to produce." Shaw labeled this will of the species the Life Force and gave an old formula an ingenious plot twist-boy meets girl, boy flees girl, girl gets boy. Q.E.D.: the Life Force triumphs again. To this, as a metaphysical dimension, Shaw added...