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...ticked off a list of friends who had called from around the world, then asked: "Did I tell you that you got a promotion? Are you excited?" She asked her husband about the hostages' treatment by their Iranian captors and listened now with a grimmer face. "We'll talk about it when I get home," Gary Lee replied...
...city had grimmer moments, too. The vast wave of immigration in the 18th century stirred racial and class biases among the old Cantabrigians, and among the new as well. As Sutton explains, "the Irish, Portuguese, Italians, Poles and other immigrants who settled the Point and the Port had no interest in the aesthetic activities in Harvard Yard and did not care what Longfellow said to his butcher...
...Austrian ski team was considerably grimmer than the Americans, and for a good but unusual reason: it had too much talent. In fact, so strong were the Austrians that Franz Klammer did not even make the team. In 1976, Klammer's run in Innsbruck had instantly become a classic of sport-a headlong, fanatical plunge of almost mystical recklessness and desire. But the following year, Klammer's younger brother Klaus, also a racer, fell so badly that he will probably be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After that, some critical edge of aggressiveness...
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...