Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decent sanitation. Those same children never see a doctor, often go only fitfully to school, experience a confused, harassed and in some cases uprooted childhood, and have a life expectancy much lower than that of other children. Their parents are not "child-centered"; their parents are frightened, vulnerable, grim and themselves hungry, jobless, constantly apprehensive. It is one thing to live in a world that altogether lacks good sanitation, electricity or good medical care, as did colonial Americans, but in compensation to feel the self-respect that goes with being an accepted and welcome member of a particular community...
Dutch anger at the South Moluccans could subside as quickly as it arose once the grim episode has been concluded. Nonetheless, hundreds of citizens lined up last week to sign a petition calling for especially severe penalties for terrorist crimes. At week's end, there was great concern for the fate of the 25 hostages held by the South Moluccan terrorists at the Indonesian consulate-especially after seven shots were heard inside the building on Sunday...
Then Secretary of State Kissinger's warning to the U.N. last September may become prophetic: "The division of the planet between rich and poor could become as grim as the darkest days of the cold...
...returns to the town in the flat English Midlands where her father grew up and where she spent school vacations, trying to unearth her past in the same way that she had discovered the ancient city of Tizouk in the middle of the Sahara. What she finds is pretty grim...
...postwar years of this grim eccentric that Tankred Dorst, a West German playwright who was a P.O.W. in the U.S., has based his play. He asks an enormous imaginative effort from a European or U.S. audience: the moral issues of World War II still seem crystal clear to the countries that fought Hitler. Stereotypes about people therefore persist. Yet Dorst commands respect for Hamsun as a man who above everything else must be true to himself- whether he is right or wrong is to him irrelevant. With masterly compression, the novelist's years of trial are made into...