Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie will emphasize the "bustle and energy" of West End life, contrasted to the "grim negligees of the buildings," according to Ivy publicity director Henry A. Wood...
This personal dilemma, reflected in his book, is the source of its greatest weakness as a novel. His characters are Koestler-controlled puppets in a grim ideological allegory which takes for granted a war between Communism and the West, preaches the unoriginal warning that to defeat Russia, the West must find a more appealing faith than Marxism. For disillusioned intellectuals of Koestler's type, democracy as a function of liberty is unintelligible, and liberty itself a hopeless unknown...
...week ahead of time, 12,000 Republicans in the nation's capital jammed Uline Arena to buy a boxed chicken supper, gaze at drum majorettes and applaud an aged American Indian in spectacles and war bonnet. With partisan joy they listened to a series of grim, lowbrow political messages reeking with campaign clich...
...Bird-dogging,' an ancient and dishonorable sport not listed on the official program, drew the usual number of stags to the Carnival, but the grim tenacity and staying power of the hosts in most cases made it a fruitless enterprise. Dartmouth men are extremely generous, especially on party weekends, but few were disposed towards surrendering their dates without a battle, or at least a few sharp words. Some bird dogs won their letters over the weekend, but only by fighting a war of attrition in which whiskey and sweet words were the principal weapons...
Local greeting card dealers found themselves caught short this week as grim-faced students mulled over the macabre selection and asked whether there were any more...