Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Global Division. Amidst these grim drifts and doubts, Clayton and the Americans at Geneva hope to slow down the drift toward economic nationalism, and then to let the results demonstrate what they sincerely believe-that capitalism is catching...
...taste," burbles Chilean Author María-Luísa Bombal, "the grim, documentary type of writing is overdone today. I prefer-what you call-escape." Because escapist literature is Hollywood's meat, her new novel, House of Mist (Farrar Straus, $2.75), was a natural mouthful (at $125,000) for Producer Hal Wallis. Even without book royalties Author Bombal's literary take is tops for a Latin American writer...
...block west of Ebbets Field, at the Left Field Bar & Grill, a grim conversation was in progress. One voice said: "Dixie Walker ain't hittin', huh?" A dime bounced on the bar and a voice replied: "He'll hit ... but whaddya get from Durocher? He ain't lookin' over the rookies. Who's gonna be on first? Third base's wide open. Only three positions sewed down. The jerk! Gimme a libation, Eddie...
Sanders Theatre's usual grim atmosphere gave way last night almost enough to permit James Otis to hop off his pedestal and take a seat in the parquet. A rousing, unselfconscious performance by the celebrated Harvard University Band; several ad lib remarks delivered from the podium by director Malcolm Holmes including his introduction of "Wintergreen" as a "New England folk song dating from the seventeenth century"; and an extremely responsive audience who howled with appreciation after each number in true Soldiers Field tradition were responsible for the transformation...
...Hope. A fine, grim war film, made in Spain in 1938 by Novelist Andre Malraux (TIME...