Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason James Joyce wrote as he did is, no doubt, explained in the first episode [of Ulysses], "You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought." However, both are artists. And what else, cries the voice of doom, matters...
Wearing a green nylon flight jacket, with a frayed cigar clamped in his teeth and an expression of grim satisfaction on his face, Major General Henry Hodes, one of the two U.N. subcommitteemen at Panmunjom, strode out of the conference tent. Allied newsmen trotted up eagerly. "Well," said the general, "we're agreed in principle on that thing...
Common belief to the contrary not-withstanding, the Administrative Board is not the grim enemy of good clean fun. Nor does it believe that threats con produce responsible student behavior. Nevertheless, it has a responsibility to point out to student the fact that mass public disturbances in the Square are no longer tolerable. They belong in the age of the flying wedge, John the Orangeman and Bloody Monday, not of the trackless trolley. Expressions of innocent, boyish joie de vivre though they may be, they are a menace to life, limb and property, both of the public and of Harvard...
...snoring or talking in his sleep." The lavatories had no locks. Even solitary walks were forbidden. Yet there "one met for the first time characters, adult and adolescent, who bore about them the genuine quality of evil. There was Collifax, who practiced torments with dividers; Mr. Cranden with three grim chins, a dusty gown, a kind of demoniac sensuality; from these heights evil declined toward Parlow, whose desk was filled with minute photographs-advertisements of art photos. Hell lay about them in their infancy...
...only thing Copland has been forced to bear with is the twentieth century. "You're stuck with your period, just as with your family," he says, not unhappily. "A period would have to be pretty grim not to find something in it worth composing." This fidelity to his own time is undoubtedly the reason for Copland's extraordinary influence on modern music. The dean of American composers has severed his ties with the romanticists; he writes his music to reflect the outside world rather than to rework the feelings of a past age. "You don't pick the music...