Word: dourness
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...barracks somewhere in Scotland's dour landscape, a battalion of Highlanders is waging a pretty grim peace under the command of Colonel Jock Sinclair...
...train carrying 75 men, women and children. There were no survivors. For weeks afterwards divers groped about the muddy estuary recovering pieces of railway hardware and bodies. Tay fishermen dragged the river bed for more bodies. The victims were neatly laid out in the station waiting room, and dour Dundee turned out eagerly to watch the funereal spectacle. British Novelist-Newspaperman John Prebble has told the story of the disaster rivet by rivet-from the initial soundings, haphazard design and botched ironwork down to the penny pencil found on the body of a survivor and the last shilling compensation paid...
...Barbados, 166 sq. mi. of sugar cane jampacked with 228,000 people, a population of 1,475 to the square mile. Led by stolid, dour Prime Minister Grantley Adams, 58, a onetime Socialist militant who softened in office. Barbados is the loyal "little Britain" of the islands...
...Potting Shed is much less dour than The Living Room, not only because at the end James Callifer has found a measure of faith, but because the whole play is concerned with faith and not with sin, and because it pivots on a priestly uncle who fortifies rather than fails the protagonist. And though neither play fully sustains itself, the last-act letdown of The Potting Shed is more like that in The Cocktail Party. Here, Greene the playwright takes a whole act for what the novelist could wind up in a chapter...
...Evangelist Charles Potter, 45, was in high gear last week on an experiment called the North Birmingham Industrial Crusade. Through a three-square-mile area of dour, industrial Birmingham, Potter and his fellow crusaders are swarming in a "saturation campaign" designed to test the chances of evangelizing the segment of Britain that Billy Graham largely failed to reach-the workers. Potter's plan is not to rack up as many "decisions for Christ" as possible, but to stimulate discussion along Christian lines, eventually organize "Christian cells in the factories-Communism in reverse...