Word: dourness
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Despite increased support from many Portuguese who approve Salazar's ruthless suppression of the Angola revolt, the regime's unpopularity showed itself in the crowds that queued for admission to opposition meetings and showered even the most pedestrian speakers with wild applause. Under the dour eyes of police at Lisbon's dingy old Republican Center last week, they chorused "Down with fascism" as candidates denounced government "terrorism" in Africa, Portugal's "medieval" police state and meager living standards (per capita income: less than $200 a year). Said one opposition leader: "We are being forced to live...
Literary feuding, a sport regrettably neglected of late, has a long and splendidly dishonorable history, one of whose darker chapters. concerns Sam Johnson. James Boswell. and a dour magistrate, Sir John Hawkins...
Died. Henry Doorly, 81, dour, conservative, longtime boss of the Omaha World-Herald, which was the city's third-ranking paper when he was hired as a reporter in 1903, became its only daily and the most powerful paper in Nebraska during his tenure as publisher from 1934 to 1950; of a heart attack; in Omaha...
...with his evident acting skill be often unconsciously upstages other actors, notably Peter Gesell who makes Touchstone little more than a fugitive from the Old Howard. perhaps the production would have been improved by Mr. Kazanoff's trading roles with Tom Griffin, whose Orlando, far from being ebullient, is dour and grumpy enough for a Richard III or an Edmund. (Mr. Griffin, sad to say, has been beset by two of the continuing Terrors of all Shakespearean acting: the Noble Voice, which attempts to sound English and inspiring and most closely resembles muffled Gielgud, and the Emphatic Shimmy, apparently...
Before long the moonlight is glinting off Peck's jaw as he leads a crew of ruffians up an unclimbable rock face in a pelting rain. Suddenly he slips. In best White Tower tradition, the man who grabs Peck's wrist is his blood enemy, a dour Cretan guerrilla (Anthony Quinn) who has sworn to kill him when the war is over. Quinn's eyes flash. Will he let Peck fall? Not, the viewer may be sure, while there are still old war movies left to anthologize...