Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Molotov cocktail that landed two yards from their feet. Miraculously unhurt, the couple retreated to their car while police arrested two radical students for the firebombing. Okinawa was the scene of 187,000 Japanese deaths during World War II, and last week's attack served as a grim reminder of the resentment for these losses that is still directed at Emperor Hirohito and his family...
Despite its prodigious length, respectful traditionalism and grim high seriousness, The Surface of the Earth is so much shadowboxing with the ghosts of a gothic past. Price assembles as pallid a clan of relatives as ever sipped juleps on the veranda. The Mayfields and the Kendals are first yoked together in 1903, when young Eva Kendal elopes with Forrest Mayfield, her high school Latin teacher. Piqued, Eva's mother commits suicide and leaves her a nasty letter. A son, Rob, is born, and Eva trots back home with him to care for her father in North Carolina. Forrest stays...
...Freshman Union, and he was expressing more than just a personal feeling of outrage--his reaction betrayed the sure instinct of a public relations officer confronted with botulism in the vichyssoise. The first thing Charles Daly must have thought of when he stumbled on the Identimat machines was a grim features page in The New York Times: the irresistable headline, "Nineteen Eighty Four Arrives at Harvard," and the inevitable stark photograph of gaunt, sallow-faced summer school students fining up at the Union to be processed by the machine. In any case, Harvard's vice-presidents went into a quick...
TIME has clearly described the grim outlook of isolation and detached social status thrust upon our senior citizens after retirement. The medical profession has been less than totally responsive to the health needs of the elderly. In fact, departments of geriatric medicine are essentially nonexistent in medical schools. As a result, many physicians are not fully aware of the unique psychological stresses associated with aging. Our retired citizens must be provided with community resources for preventive medicine, and treatment clinics preserving the quality of life and the human dignity of the elderly...
...School Professor Andrew Brimmer was firmly in cheek last week as he greeted leaders of the nation's power companies gathered in Denver for the annual meeting of the Edison Electric Institute. "So nice to see you," said he, "now that you are feeling better." The salutation drew grim laughter. Utilities are indeed in better financial shape than they were a year or so ago, but their situation is still not exactly healthy...