Word: dourness
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...Dour Mood. Perhaps inevitably, Protestant militants were infuriated by Whitelaw's strategy of restraint. They demanded that the barricades be torn down. To force Whitelaw's hand, masked members of the Ulster Defense Association, a militant Protestant organization, hijacked cars and used them to create a 24-hour barricade around the Protestant Woodvale district of Belfast. Unless Whitelaw sent his troops into the Bogside, declared the U.D.A., the Protestants would surround their areas with permanent barricades also...
...consequence the film becomes slightly un raveled before it reaches its climax. The movie is also overrich in incidents, since Jutra and Perron are too anxious to cram everything in. There is an excess of vivid but extraneous vignettes of village life, like the Christmas sleigh ride of the dour mineowner distributing stockings full of cheap candy to the poor children along the main street. Yet in spite of its unfixed perspective, My Uncle Antoine is indelible, the best chronicle of a coming of age since Truffaut's The 400 Blows...
...land itself, in the words of an old chronicler, was "lean, hungry and waste." Instead of houses and barns, sinister cut-stone towers studded bleak slopes, along with no less sinister place names-Foul Play Know, Dour Hill, Blackhaggs, Foulmire Heights. Here on the border between England and Scotland, year after terrible year, the great "riding families"-Armstrongs, Scotts, Maxwells, Grahams, Johnstones, Elliots, Fenwicks and others-spent most of their time committing "innumerabil slauchteris, fyre raisingis, herschipps and detestabil enormities...
...often happened in its dour and tragic history, bloody Ulster was politically divided last week. For a change, the most pressing quarrel was not between dominant Protestants and the Catholic minority, but among the Protestants themselves. The issue that split them was Britain's imposition of direct rule over Ulster...
...member of the commission during its entire 14 years, Mansholt grew up among the dour farmer folk of the northern Dutch province of Groningen, and during World War II became a central figure in the Resistance. Tapped after the war to become Minister of Agriculture, he tired of domestic politics in the 1950s, and in 1958 was sent to Brussels as The Netherlands' member of the European Commission. There he refined "the Mansholt Plan" to phase out Europe's tiny farms and replace them with larger, more efficient units; a modified version of his proposal was passed...