Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western powers are mostly content to let the Viennese policemen take care of their own zones. The Russians, though, march around their bezirks with grim-looking submachine guns slung over their shoulders...
...middle name, Richard, because it seemed more euphonious), grew a sprawling beard and even changed his style. He painted oil versions of Victorian engravings by such artists as Cruikshank and Sir John Gilbert which were as highly colored and gay as his earlier paintings were low-keyed and grim. "It's such a good arrangement," he explained fliply. "Cruikshank and Gilbert do all the work and I get all the money...
...officers he interviewed is stitched into a record of human toughness and devotion that defeats even a dead-pan style. Some 80 officers and men were ordered ashore from the Amethyst, got to the Nationalist side and made it to Shanghai. It was those who remained aboard through the grim summer days who were finally to taste the excitement of the Amethyst's escape...
Night into Morning (MGM) unintentionally serves as a fine argument for the escapist entertainment that Hollywood makes best. It is a grim, dolorous movie about a college English professor (Ray Milland) who loses his wife and child in an explosion and searches for a way to go on living without them. He broods endlessly over the tragedy, finds no solace either in drink or in the advances of a tart (Jean Hagen), finally is brought to face life again through the efforts of an understanding friend (Nancy Davis), whose concern over him almost alienates her fiance (John Hodiak...
...blown pinnacles of salmon pink and fiery white all fused together like stick candy-all suggestive of a child's fantasy of heaven . . ." In Salt Lake City he let loose a hot blast at Mormonism: "The harsh ugly temple, the temple sacrosanct, by us unvisited, unvisitable, so ugly, grim, grotesque, and blah . . . Enough, enough, of all this folly, this cruelty and this superstition-into the white car now and out of town." But what the Mormons had done with the countryside sent him into an ecstatic chant: "And then below the most lovely and enchanted valley of them...