Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress does not write a foreign policy. But the temper of the nation's 531 lawmakers has a persuasive effect on the Administration. A grim Congress was almost fatalistically ready last week for an international showdown...
From Peking south to Canton, belligerent Red China shouted new watchwords: "Beware of burrowing! Beware of air raids!" Burrowing meant the anti-Communist underground. Retaliatory U.N. air raids seemed a grim possibility in the Red mind; like prudent, undaunted soldiers, the aggressors in Peking were preparing for the worst...
Three Martinis. Something similar, though on a smaller scale, was happening simultaneously to a score of other French authors. The Prix Femina had gone to Serge Groussard for his La femme sans passé, a grim story of a murderess' flight on a river barge; the Prix Théophraste Renaudot to Pierre Molaine (in real life Major Léopold Faure, tank officer in the French army) for his Les orgues de I'enfer, a story about a resistance fighter hiding from the Gestapo in an insane asylum. The fourth big prize, the Prix Interalli...
...Cocteau's up-to-date mythology, death's handmaiden rides in a Rolls-Royce, flanked by grim motorcyclists, and communicates with Orpheus by shortwave radio. Her immediate superiors in the beyond-a bombed-out no man's land between the living and the dead-are a trio of business-suited bureaucrats in a chain of command that goes on into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore...
...leader in this field. Their engineers are apparently inside men in the Pentagon and Oak Ridge, who are lifting the latest trade secrets. This whole program of advancing scientific orientation of the little tots is a kind of junior universal military training to prepare them for the coming, grim years...