Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already has an H-bomb. It more likely meant that an atom bomb has been found feasible as a trigger for the H-bomb, and that possibly some heavier hydrogen atoms had actually been fused in the experiments. If so, that was a big jump ahead in the grim, global atomic race...
...Hogan's coaching, also gives a good imitation of the master's golfing technique. But Follow the Sun humanizes its hero mostly by picturing him as an introvert who always wanted, deep down, to be liked by the crowd, despite the emotionless surface he displays as a grim perfectionist on the links. This view of Hogan, which seems somewhat romanticized, pays off with an extra dividend of surefire appeal: the golfer's realization, as messages of sympathy and encouragement pour into the hospital, that people really care...
...humour magazine, The Campus Cat, comes out sporadically. Its best achievement to date was a parody of the article Life published a year ago on the co-ed college versus the woman's college. That story depicted life at a girl school as pretty grim by comparison and has since become infamous in Northampton...
...Broken Root is more effective as a report than as a novel. Like many another intellectual turned novelist, Author Barea becomes so intent on making his point that he pushes his people around until coincidence swamps art and life together. But he does make his point, and a grim...
...Childress is rocked back on his heels by Mollie, but something deep inside drives him to the grim decision to remarry her and go back home. A European friend explains the deep-inside part for him. "The American woman is a barbarian by comparison . . . She's a Roman next to a Greek. Forgive me, but you're a Roman too, with a Greek sensibility, and that's why you must tame your Roman woman before you'll be happy...