Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This grim thesis is bludgeoned home with endless repetition; only a first-rate actor can make each of these repetitions count. Happily enough, this production boasts several first-rate actors, most of them in leading roles...
...Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi" (Holy Father, thus passes the glory of the world). In the course of the Mass, an assisting cardinal placed on the Pope's shoulders the pallium, a white wool band symbolizing his authority as Bishop of Rome, and the sacristan performed the grim ritual of tasting the wine to be used, as reminder of the days when Popes often died by poison. At the conclusion of the Mass a silk purse containing 25 ancient coins was presented to the Pontiff, traditional payment for "a Mass well done...
...England's green and pleasant land, few areas are more blighted than Yorkshire's grim and dour West Riding, with its blackened industrial valleys forested with smokestacks, jug-shaped cooling towers, sooty spires and reeking slag heaps. Yet last week, as the Leeds City Art Gallery staged a five-man, 58-piece sculpture show of Yorkshire's native sons, it became abundantly clear that this area of bleak moors is the cradle of Britain's sculpture renaissance...
...artlessness with which Author del Castillo achieves a child's angle of vision makes his boy-hero Tanguy one of the most endearing and poignant figures in recent fiction. Child of Our Time is both a grim and a grand commentary on the human condition. The first response to this book is elemental-to weep. The second response is to marvel that Michel del Castillo endured what he did, and that, having endured, he could still forgive so much that is eternally unforgivable...
...Still, a grim alternative remains. Governor Almond expressed it yesterday, interpreting the recent Little Rock decision as saying "to the states that they must totally abandon not only free public schools where they cannot be operated on an integrated basis, but that they must not render any affirmative assistance to parents who will not send their children to racially mixed schools." The only way for a state to prevent mixed schools is to withdraw absolutely from the field of secondary education...