Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toll taken by the deprivations of lower-class life is conveyed in more subtle ways, through the grave note in an old man's voice, through the stark interior of a working man's kitchen, through the whiskered, burnt faces of workers discussing politics in a bar. Even Barrera's face seems to change with the chronological shifts in the movie, from the full-boned, clean-shaven, clear-eyed vigor of his revolutionary days to the meticulously-combed, vainly-mustachioed, narrow-eyed shiftiness of his union leadership. Such details help the film to capture a mood of quiet despair...
...Although the grave has not actually closed over him, he must be classed among the dead." Few English artists can have received a more crushing valediction than this, written in an art journal in 1843, on a 26-year-old painter named Richard Dadd. He probably never read it, for he had just been bundled off to Bethlem Hospital (whose lugubrious halls of madmen had given the word "bedlam" its English use) in a strait-waistcoat...
Only in one area does the book seem misguided. "The French phrase rien de grave is idiomatic for. . . 'It's nothing serious.' Associate 'Ran the grave' to 'It's nothing' in some ridiculous way and you've memorized it." Yes, you have, and in a flawless Kankakee accent...
...Figaro, La Croix and other defenders of Daniélou sharply challenged Canard's suggestion that Daniélou had died in flagrante delicto. The French episcopacy denounced the "grave insinuations" concerning the cardinal's death, insisting that "his apostolate extended to the most diverse realms, often to the most disreputable and downtrodden persons both inside and outside the church...
...public colleges that have historically been all-male or all-female. The greatest disappointment to many feminists was the failure of HEW to ban sex stereotyping in textbooks and other curricular material. The department was aware of the problem but claimed that "any specific regulatory provision would raise grave constitutional questions under the First Amendment." That failure to act, said Ann Scott, legislative vice president at the National Organization for Women, is "desperately serious. They are still allowing girls to be taught that they are inferior...