Word: glumness
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Page asks. "Is it good?" Replies Andrea Rander: "Time for bed." Later, hearing the glum report from Henry Kissinger in Washington, Andrea sighs: "Oh, no! Here we go again. That's what they've been saying for the last four years." Then she composes herself. "There's bound to be a settlement soon. We'll just keep hoping and hoping...
Dealers continue to exhibit their pet trends as though nothing had happened, but recent art criticism has taken on a glum, apocalyptic tone: "The art currently filling the museums and galleries is of such low quality generally that no real critical intelligence could possibly feel challenged to analyze it...There is an inescapable sense among artists and critics that we are at the end of our rope, culturally speaking...
...This spring, however, along with a flow of popular articles and television shows on self-destruction, a number of books have been published, all more or less aimed at the general public. Suicide, in fact, seems about to join teen-age druggery and air pollution as one of the glum preoccupations of the decade...
...ability of land to produce food. Every advance in technology consumes scarce natural resources, throws off more pollutants and often has unwanted social side effects, like creating huge and unmanageable unemployment. What if pollution was abated, the birthrate halved and food production doubled? The readouts are no less glum. There would still be some pollution from every farm and factory, and cumulatively it would still trigger catastrophe. After running thousands of such hypotheses through the computer, Meadows sums up his conclusion tersely: "All growth projections end in collapse...
...exactly thought that Eliot wrote "February is the cruellest month" the first time and had to be put right. But until 1968, all sorts of glum speculations were still possible. Then the only copy of the original manuscript turned up in New York. A brief critical glimpse-but no note taking-was permitted then, answering some questions, raising others. Now the poet's wife, Valerie Eliot, has brought out a facsimile edition of the original Waste Land. Complete with notes, a color key to distinguish Pound's editing from Eliot's, progressive handwritten and typed versions...