Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retraced and re-enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more grim than any in Pompeii, the shadow of a human body, fire-stenciled into the pavement of Hiroshima...
...hour, lean, pale Admiral André Marquis and grim Admiral Jean Marie Abrial had been waiting in the dock. The public that jammed the somber, oak-paneled Salle des Congrés at Versailles-where the High Court has been trying Vichy officials-had been buzzing with impatience. Since 2 p.m. the Court had been ready to proceed with Admirals Marquis and Abrial, accused of conspiring to keep the French Navy out of Allied hands in 1942.* But eleven of the 24 deputies on the jury panel had not appeared...
That gave George Grim, Morning Tribune columnist and oldtime radio actor, an idea: why not keep idle little hands out of mischief with a radio show? Two Minneapolis college stations hopped to it, gave a daily, five-to-six-hour broadcast of games, stories, circus music and the like; then all six Minneapolis commercial stations joined in. As each came to an end of its show, it told moppets to turn to a rival station for more Fun at Home...
Milan's Archbishop, Cardinal Schuster, took a grim view of the sacrilegious thefts. Said he in a pastoral letter published in the press: "There exist individuals and organized groups of people who are trying to get consecrated hosts, which they profane and use for unmentionable purposes during their meetings." In another letter he wrote: "A sect which sustains the part of Judas the Traitor is at work, and is all the more repulsive because . . . boys are abused...
Bjartur of Summerhouses is the central figure in Independent People. This grim, graphic novel of life on the Icelandic uplands, circa 1900-1920, is the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for August and, according to the publisher, an "epic in the grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text...