Word: sullenness
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Based on a modest bestseller by Mildred Savage, the film is supposed to prove that "our youth is neither beat nor lost." Instead, as represented by some featherweight personalities out of Warner's TV training camp, American youth is merely sullen, sadistic and sex-obsessed. "This is my bedroom, in case you get lost," says Connie (Hawaiian Eye) Stevens, a limber branch of the Jukes family tree, just half a minute after she meets Donahue. "We can have a lot of fun together...
Kasavubu's army commander. Major General Joseph Mobutu, flew in from Leopoldville and dropped by to greet Tshombe jauntily. "What's all the trouble?" he inquired pleasantly of the sullen prisoner, who sat sipping soda water as six of his Belgian aides were loaded into a plane and flown back to U.N. headquarters for questioning...
...Life-Ration, cards of "living time" are issued to people according to their degree of uselessness. The part-time lifers must undergo a state of nonbeing or "temporary death" each month. As a result, they live their lives more fully than the productive fulltime lifers, who become sullen drudges. Moral: it is not the length but the breadth and depth of life that matters...
...Gaston Eyskens and his Catholic-backed Social Christians for the Congo debacle, and attacked Eyskens' sensible but unpopular economic austerity program-price of the lost Congo- because it meant higher taxes and reduced pensions. Belgium's voters were ready to criticize politicians of every stripe, in a sullen style reminiscent of the ugly, empty mood of Frenchmen in the last stages of the Fourth Republic...
...your book review of The Gouffe Case, you say: ". . . A sullen lout named Eyraudt, who had fled to, of all places, Chicopee, Mass." I am concerned in what sense you use the phrase "of all places...