Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring to expanded grim-reaping activities on the part of the law along the Wellesley-Newton line, he concluded, "So you go to Harvard, eh? Well, I want you to go back there and tell all those Harvard guys to slow down...
That ended it. The four gentlemen riders had had enough sport. The goose, a limp mass of crumpled feathers, was taken down. In the crowd, some cheered, some laughed, some looked grim. South Carolina's ancient sport of goose pulling had been revived...
...overblown eloquence of gesture and voice in tragic opera and the grim melo-naturalism of a modern police state are shrewdly used to enhance each other. The opera house serves, too, as a huge, machine-like symbol of a nation. Opera lovers will dote on the Puccini sound track, but moviegoers who have no special affection for opera are likely to find the protracted, underlighted operatic sequences dull. There is, however, some good fierce melodrama which almost anyone can enjoy...
...Hope. Not "entertainment," but a fine, grim film about the Spanish Civil War, made in 1938 by Novelist Andre Malraux (TIME...
...Hope. Not "entertainment," but a fine, grim film about the Spanish Civil War (TIME...