Word: glumness
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...Soviet officials named as spies by the British government and ordered to leave the country (15 were out of Britain when the expulsion orders came, and 20 have since left by other means). It was hardly a classy exit. For two hours in the autumn fog, glum parents and children clutching Teddy bears waited on the Thames pier while the creaking, 35-year-old Russian cruise ship Baltika, scheduled for scrapping next year, was readied for departure. Nerves were ragged. As press cameras clicked away, one Russian shouted: "Stop those stupid things...
...which is the main one." He also celebrates the riot of commercial structures that have sprouted under the hot sun like exotic weeds: restaurants shaped like hats, milk cans or owls, and squat concrete structures garnished with billboards or slathered with ornamentation. But he detests the proliferation of glum office towers that are "not Los Angeles but memorials to a certain insecurity of spirit among timid souls who cannot bear to go with the flow of Angeleno life...
...Hocker, one of the alltime great American nudists, is still out there in the nude. But he is not smiling and carefree, the way you would imagine a nudist to be. At 60, Mel sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn. Forlorn because just outside Mel's screen door, his own twelve-acre nudist club-the Oakdale Guest Ranch-is going silently to seed in the dry heat of the San Bernardino Mountains. In fact, the club's membership in two years has plummeted from 300 to 60 couples...
...Hocker sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn, brooding about the passing of the golden age of nudism and wearily watching Sparky Blaine trying to create a last varoom...
...season for that glum annual speculation: Will the nation's cities erupt in racial violence? As temperatures climb and hundreds of thousands of youths find themselves jobless in the ghetto streets, this year the tinder is drier than it has been since the fiery spring of 1968. While the urban ghettos have seemed quiet for a long time, it was plain all along that there was discouragement, if not despair, beneath the surface, and that violent anger could again erupt if conditions failed to improve...