Word: grimmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sheen tried several times to revive his old TV preaching magic, but the times had changed. It was only in the year or two before his death that America's grimmer sense of history seemed to run his way again. One of Sheen's basic messages was against self-indulgence. He told Americans that the Antichrist would come, "talking of peace, prosperity and plenty." Modern man, he insisted, seeks promises of salvation without a cross, wants a "Christ without his nails." Then the bishop would thunder: "There is no pleasure without pain, no Easter without Good Friday...
...That's a grimmer prediction than most people at Harvard want to hear, but the rough figures bear it out. If the Faculty leaves the campaign with $150 million earned, and makes five per cent interest on that money, it will earn about $7.5 million annually from the new money. But five years from now, by the campaign's end, the Faculty budget will most likely have reached a whopping $100 million. If inflation remains 13 per cent, the extra $7.5 million will have cushioned the Faculty surprisingly little. In fact, the years of administrative planning and fund-raising work...
...would-be followers is a perfectly sensible "You'll have to work things out for yourselves"), but ends up being crucified anyway. To make matters worse, one of his fellow sufferers on Golgotha is one of those awful people who grow only more cheerful as the situation becomes grimmer. He insists on leading the condemned in choruses of a Broadway-style tune, The Bright Side of Life, as they hang from their crosses...
...emergency meeting of the Nationalists' Central Committee last week one member even raised the prospect of playing a "Russia card" in answer to America's "China card"-meaning Taiwan would seek ties with the U.S.S.R. This suggestion was flatly rejected. Washington, actually, was worried about a grimmer prospect. Taiwan has a host of talented scientists and an accelerated nuclear reactor program; predictions were that it could produce an atomic bomb in two years...
...band of romantic South American revolutionaries based in France. As the book commences, they are subverting the Establishment by filling new cigarette packages with burnt-out butts, and smuggling cartons of the fakes into bars and tobacco shops to be sold as the real thing. They progress to grimmer matters, among them the kidnaping of a South American police official...