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the dogs more sullen the farther up you went, and Russian and Roman churches below, the sunlight on the river, the bridge empty, the outer one half-hidden, I was shocked by the sudden distance
In the post-World War II years, urban strife and suburban anomie gave rise to school violence of the sorts broadly rendered by Hollywood in the 1955 films Rebel Without a Cause and Blackboard Jungle . The nation waxed hysterical over "juvenile delinquency," as the vogue phrase had it--alienated adolescents unaccountably sullen in the bountiful Eisenhower years.
Now there are hip athletes--snowboarders, sullen teen skateboarders, Rollerbladers, dirt bikers--fighting for public space across barriers of age, class, and hairstyle.
pudjicky sullen, grouchy
She tromps around dull-eyed in a gray skirt and thick, mustard-colored stockings--a sullen bottom-feeder.