Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recall a conversation that came to my mind today which I had with Marshal Stalin at a very grim period of the war in December 1941. One night, after our discussions about the immediate situation were over and we were conversing more discursively, we spoke of Hitler. After all, the German armies were then about 40 miles from Moscow. We discussed his character and I remember that Marshal Stalin made this comment: 'We should not underrate Hitler. He is a very able man, but he made one mistake. He did not know when to stop...
...Communist invaders from North Korea last week reaped the harvest of tactical surprise, of crushing superiority in weapons. The spectacle was the sickening one of a heavyweight punching around a wispy little man who has just got up from a sickbed. The situation, though grim, was not hopeless. At week's end, the little man had powerful friends hurrying to his side...
Over Lukewarm Water. By the time the white-faced widow is haled before a grim judge and jury, Author Trollope has haled half of England into his novel-including the principals and extras in no less than five love affairs, a motley crew of traveling salesmen, the members of a local fox hunt, enough learned barristers and shyster lawyers (with their families and friends) to pack a small courthouse. He has also piled in so much legal lumber that a lawyer has been chosen to introduce the new edition...
...artists, concentrating on city life and emphasizing its seamy side, never approached the consistent quality of their four great predecessors. But they had long outlived their early scornful nickname: the "ashcan school." Now the work of such men as Henri, Luks, Glackens and Bellows looks far more lively than grim. And the school produced a couple of the show's near masterpieces: Bellows' wide and windy Up the Hudson and Glackens' sparkling Green...
...film of towering significance, it attempts little more than a skin-deep approach to its grim subjects, holds itself well within the limits of melodramatic action. In a California fruit-growing town, a Mexican-American youth (Lalo Rios) innocently gets into trouble with the police. While he flees in fear, more serious charges pile up against him, inflaming the town's prejudice against its underprivileged Latin colony...