Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's words and work showed that the stretch between Johnson's window and Ike's White House is broad, that it has become 1960-5 no man's land, where challenges will be belligerent and combat grim...
...Elizabeth's legitimacy is in doubt, however, where does that leave poor Nausicaa, who was identified as a "rare form of Greek disease"? Although this might have been merely grim humor, another identification in the same course--Hum 2--was more purposefully thought out. The passage, from the Divine Comedy, described Mathilda taking Dante across the river Lethe, and giving him a symbolic baptism--washing away sins so he can enter Paradise. Mathilda tells Dante, "Hold me! Hold...
Ahead of the U.S., after Mikoyan's visit as before, stretched the familiar grim vista of struggle-not quite war, certainly not peace, but a course to which the U.S. had long since become accustomed. Against the standard prospect, President Eisenhower, in the budget and the Economic Report that he sent to Congress this week, stressed the nation's need to look to the health of its basic source of material strength: the U.S. economy under the free-enterprise system. For fiscal 1960 the President submitted a balanced $77 billion budget. In his Economic Report, he asked Congress...
...noble stage figure. If he is insufficiently heroic, if he does not project the proper intensity of fanaticism, if he is not completely at home with the witty Doctor's epigrams, still he has moments of great effectiveness. Earle Edgerton and Dean Gitter play the murderers with unflagging grim conviction, though they do not capitalize on the grotesque idiosyncrasies that Thomas outlined for them in the published script, and seem as a result almost interchangeable. The rest of the cast ranges from adequate to awful...
torn thumb. The familiar tall story and its tiny hero, tastefully refurbished by Hollywood. The Grimms would never recognize its goofy love plot or its gay puppets, but the kids may like it better than the grim original...