Word: dourness
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...last week of 1971 was typical of life in the dour, grimy Victorian cities of the North that are a battleground in the conflict between the British army and the outlawed terrorist Irish Republican Army. There were bombings in Belfast, Londonderry, Enniskillen and the village of Rostrevor. where the I.R.A. destroyed the country house of Ivan Neill, Speaker of the Ulster House of Commons. (Neill and his wife were away...
...passing of 1971. To some, the prevalence of pub bombing made it seem as if the war were being fought by the Temperance League rather than the I.R.A.; it has secretly pleased some Presbyterian elders. Many customers, scared of the pub warfare, quit early. This has given rise to dour little jokes. The long-suffering wife of a drinking husband supposedly says: "That's the first time Paddy has been home before closing time in years." Another story?a true one?tells of fleeing bombers who had to return their stolen getaway car because they had unwittingly taken it from...
What English heaths were to Thomas Hardy, the mountains of southern Italy are to Ann Cornelisen. In the isolated villages of the Lucanian Apennines, she has stumbled upon that ominous interaction between dour people and stark environment that comes to be called fate...
...Nuclear Accidents. Nixon also moved to improve U.S. relations with the Soviet Union in a two-hour conference with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko-a session that one participant later termed "more friendly than any previous meeting" between the often dour Gromyko and U.S. officials. The talks ranged the world trouble spots, from the Middle East to the India-Pakistan dispute and to West Berlin. There apparently was little discussion of Nixon's Peking trip or of U.S. involvement in South Viet Nam-two sensitive issues. But both sides expressed optimism about achieving progress in arms limitation when...
...Last Run, on the other hand, is just full of hot air. George C. Scott, looking dour and uncomfortable, appears as an aging, paunchy driver for the Mob who takes a job after nine years to see if he can still cut it. He gets tangled up in the ill fortunes of his passenger, a hit man with a cheap line of chatter (Tony Musante) and his girl (Trish Van Devere), who is supposed to be a moll but looks a good deal more like a Peck & Peck model. The suspense is so listless that the characters seem considerably less...