Word: sullenness
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Mounting Skepticism. In Saigon, the popular mood was sullen, even acrimonious. Vietnamese complained that Lam Son was a U.S. concoction designed to accomplish U.S. goals and the ARVN was paying a dear price. Every hour, truckloads of fresh corpses rolled into the Bien Hoa military cemetery, where gravediggers had been ordered to double their normal 100-graves-a-week pace...
...contrast between the two champions does not end with ideology. Ali is the black Adonis on parade?quick of wit, mercurial, explosive, forever turned on. Frazier is awkward and introspective, given to sullen moods that he calls "the slouchies." At home or in the ring, Ali is a klieg-lighted one-man happening. Frazier, who has the sullen glare of the late Sonny Liston (but none of the deep-rooted malice), courts neither the public nor the press. "I'm just me, see." he says. "If some people don't notice me, that's good. I got enough people pestering...
...scenes in Mexico, Tangier, and Europe, the trips abroad before Kerouac and Ginsberg returned to the United States to be famous after the publication of Howl. On the Road Evergreen Review No. 2, and The New American Poetry. The last picture in this final section, a picture of a sullen Kerouac in Tangier, has a caption below it that is prophetic: "At that time I sincerely believed that the only decent activity in the world was to pray for everyone, in solitude... At that very moment, the manuscript of On the Road was being linotyped for imminent publication...
...swagger stick. Glamour is provided by Mademoiselle Garonce, a Viennese-educated vision in chiffon with a husky voice that sounds as if it might burst into flame at any moment. The fifth member of the troupe is Elsie Lump (pronounced Loomp), a grumpy ex-London music-hall harpy with sullen manners, a cockney accent and hair the color of smoked salmon...
...student enthusiasm over his appointment two years ago has cooled into a sullen acceptance. "That's the Bok way of doing things," one second-year student shrugged during a curriculum reform discussion. "If you understand the Law School, you know that nothing changes very fast over there... but lots of things have changed [in the last two years]. Bok's a diplomat-wishy-washy on one level, effective on another...