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...deep patience of the colored peoples is at an end. Everywhere among them there is the same resolve for freedom and equality that white Americans and British have, but it is a grimmer resolve, for it includes the determination to be rid of white rule and exploitation and white race prejudice, and nothing will weaken this will...
...Greek refugees, exiles, the thousands doomed to starve in Athens, guerrillas like Volanis, George II had spoken words of hope and faith as he was fleeing from Athens: "Have courage—good days will come again. Long live the nation!" Last week, a grimmer, saddened king, trying to joke merrily on the White House lawn, still had that hope...
Neither the war nor the paper shortage have yet touched the Harvard Advocate, and the December issue, despite its grimmer gray exterior, presents the old material in the old way with only a touch less than its usual technical excellence. Marvin Barertt's lead story, "Home Life," is a particularly skillful sketch of a degenerate family, and its distilled essence of moral and physical decay, engenedered, by apparently objective description of voluptuous decadence, savors strongly of the works of William Faulkner. Unfortunately, however, the author has little of Faulkner's control or understanding of the literary dynamite with which...
...scope of its undertaking is gigantic; and happily, Carol Reed and his company are almost everywhere equal to their task. With the epic mundaneness of Sandburg and the brutal candor of Van Gogh, they have captured in word and picture the grim atmosphere of mining life and the grimmer heroism of its day-to-day struggle for survival...
Pundits in the entertainment business have been aware for many months that as the world's wars grew grimmer, people have grown harder to communicate with. With U.S. liquor consumption, roadhouse business and the automobile accident rate spiraling giddily, it appeared that a harassed people was bent on finding speedier escape from its troubles, did not want to see or hear anything very much-even vhen the hearing was free...