Word: glumness
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Ready to buck you up whenever you are glum...
Britons saw their first Report from America last February. Called Roads and Traffic, it opened with a shot of a London policeman writing out a parking ticket for some hapless Briton, switched to a Manhattan policeman doing the same thing for a glum American motorist. There were the nerve-jarring traffic jams as well as the glossy six-lane highways, and the whole was pleasantly salted with a wry and unpretentious commentary. Reaction was immediate. "An outstanding event," said the Sunday Times. "Visual journalism at its best," said the South Wales Echo. "A winner," said the London Evening News. Just...
...extramarital fun" and nothing but sneers to Upton Sinclair's "temperance tract." How can the American people be other than "morally bankrupt" when the men who help to mold opinion (such as TIME'S book reviewers) operate under the code that naughty is nice, good is glum...
...applause from approving Indians with a well-worn point: "In America the capitalists own the factories but we workers own the automobiles. In Russia, workers may own the factories but the bureaucrats own the automobiles." Despite the personal success of his tour, however, Labor Chief Reuther came home glum: "The gulf of misunderstanding between this country and Asia is widening...
...This glum and clumsy man, who sometimes seemed to be making animal noises rather than writing prose, is still able to make the reader share his blank sense of pain. The U.S. has never been patient with its pessimists, but to square accounts with a Dreiser, mere optimism is not enough...