Word: joyless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sets rayless-joyless-quenched in cold decay...
Cooling Off. At first, most of his listeners strained to hear. Then some of those out of range resumed their interrupted conversations, while others, in range, stared across their food & drink in joyless apathy. When Artie picked up his clarinet for a solo, his fans perked up; but out came Nicolai Berezowsky's concerto, and interest palled. Then flashbulbs began to pop; first-night celebrities queued up to have their pictures taken with new Cinemactor Kirk (Champion) Douglas...
...whole crew look unwholesome, joyless, depressed-and even sinister. ... I now know why the political articles are always cynical, the education column senseless gibberish, the religion column gloomy rubbish, devoid of inspiration, hope or spiritual benefit...
...Robert Ley, leader of Hitler's Labor Front and "Strength Through Joy" movement, turned up in a four-day beard, blue pajamas, a green hat. Found in an Austrian home, where he had put up as "Dr. Ernst Distelmeyer," joyless, strengthless Dr. Ley relinquished a vial of poison and told his U.S. captors: "I will always believe that Adolf Hitler was Germany's greatest man. ... I did everything I could for Germany. ... I think work is beautiful. . . . Life doesn't mean a damned thing to me. You can beat me; you can torture...
...gloomy statues are allowed in The Happy Cemetery-and the ban extends to representations of Christ on the cross. The Builder is impatient with portrayals of The Master as "a suffering being, of joyless visage." He is still hunting a marble Christ "who really smiles." Pursuing his ideal, Promoter Eaton once inspected 998 Christs of all sizes in Italy. None of them smiled...