Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after seven years of service in the British Royal Air Force, Paul Bernard Grieger decided to visit his parents in Poland for Christmas. It turned out to be a long visit. Two weeks ago Grieger slipped into West Berlin with a hair-raising story of his escape, and a grim account of life in the new Poland...
...courtroom atmosphere was festive rather than grim. In marked contrast with the duchess' last trial (at which she was sentenced to a year in jail-TIME, Jan. 10, 1949), there were no Tommy-gun-toting guards, no uniformed cops. The presiding judge was affable, dapper Major General Miguel Rodrigo, 54-year-old commander of Spain's one & only armored division. General Rodrigo had tried to persuade Madrid's military governor that there were no legal grounds for a trial...
...Yorker short story, The Lottery. Crowding the TV screen with dramatic close-ups and using music scored for an unusual orchestra of organ and musical saw, Cameo took its audience into an isolated village of uncertain time and place to witness the celebration of an annual rite and its grim ending: the communal stoning-to-death of a luckless citizen...
When it was over, Choreographer Lifar himself seemed to have disappeared in a cloud of dust. Reporters raced to the committee box. Why had there been no music for Lifar's ballet? Said one grim spokesman: there was "no ballet." But, insisted the reporters, it was billed in the program as a ballet; what were Lifar and all those helicopters doing out there? Said the spokesman, his face set: "No ballet. Just helicopters...
...There must be moments in these grim days," Conant said on the occasion of the first commencement week event, "when even the most optimistic among us feels as if Western civilization were in a foxhole...