Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, the opening weeks' testimony in the Watergate conspiracy trial carried grave judicial implications for the defendants, and portended adverse historical consequences for Nixon. As outlined in the clear, confident opening argument of Assistant Special Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, in the familiar, matter-of-fact testimony of Perpetual Watergate Witness John Dean and in the devastating tapes, the Government's case was impressive indeed...
Slimmer, more amiable and more relaxed than he used to be, Wilson countered by admitting that things were serious, but not all that bad. Heath, he charged, was selling Britain short. "Britain faces a grave economic crisis, but it is not heading for catastrophe." Wilson compared himself and his government to a soothing family doctor beside the sickbed and sarcastically derided Heath's call for a national coalition as a desperate ploy by a man who knew that he could not get in any other...
...save her. Dobecker interrupts his peacefully numb existence as a low official and his dabbling in mystical sciences when he briefly wins Tockbridge, and suddenly finds himself on film 24. Torn between fascination with her and concern for himself, he slips easily into the world of satanism and grave-robbing, where his familiarity with the occult keeps him in good standing. He eventually bugs the lawyer's confessional and saves Tockbridge's future--that's a happy ending in Washington these days. Having failed to find his philosopher's stone in either politics or his alchemical furnace, Dobecker gives...
Choosing sides in a political struggle, even in a world war, can be a matter of happenstance or convenience. The consequences may be grave, but the choice itself can be as casual and amoral as picking out a new suit of clothes. The core of this subtle, intelligent film is that a young man's life can be fixed and shadowed by a decision he hardly knows he has made...
...agreed by most of the people I know that Joseph Conrad was a bad writer, just as it is agreed that T. S. Eliot is a good writer. If I knew that by grinding Mr. Eliot into a fine dry powder and sprinkling that powder over Mr. Conrad's grave Mr. Conrad would shortly appear, looking very annoyed at the forced return, and commence writing, I would leave for London early tomorrow with a sausage grinder. Ernest Hemingway The Transatlantic Review...