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Somber Spirits. One of the Assembly's grimmest moments came when Dr. T. F. Tsiang, representing Nationalist China's crumbling government, rose to speak. Said he: "During the past two years, while the dike from the Persian Gulf to Scandinavia was built against the flood of Communism, the Far East has been inundated . . . Can the United Nations maintain its prestige . . . by ignoring what has taken place in my country? . . . I appeal to the General Assembly to be brave enough to embrace the vision of one indivisible world and not to retreat to the false illusory security of half...
Nevada, a half-century ago. From the start, in the isolated Bridges ranch house on the morning of the year's first snowstorm, the reader is plunged into an atmosphere of family hatreds and tensions that recalls Playwright Eugene O'Neill at his grimmest. Whisky-soaked father Bridges hates his domineering, straitlaced, Bible-reading wife ("A clothespin in bed . . . Gotta keep drinkin' just to forget the 'normous wooden clothes-pin"). Mother Bridges, on her side, despises Bridges for his worthlessness, his decayed delusions of get-rich-quick grandeur...
...grimmest Russian pressure is not directly on the Allies, but on Berlin's people. One night this week, slim, dark Fritz Müller, 27, left Berlin for good. From scrap & rubble, he had built up a little clothing shop. Business was a hopeless tangle-he couldn't get thread or needles from the Western sectors, his delivery boys were detained for days at a time by Russian patrols. Last week, because he was "politically unreliable," Fritz's shop was confiscated. Oddly, it was confiscated by the same German official who ten years ago seized his furniture...
Great Expectations. Rife with old suspicions and enmities, tired, discouraged and uncertain of their leaders, the miners were in a sense symbolic of all Britons. "Never," said the Times of London in its grimmest attack on the Government to date, "has a ministry fallen so far short of pent-up expectations as Mr. Attlee's Government." The people of Britain, added the News Chronicle, "are tired of walking downhill in the dark...
...biggest jobs: to convince 37 nationalities in some of Boston's grimmest slums that he was no Fauntleroy...