Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with grim interest that I read of the going salaries of the Hollywood horses which daily gallop across our TV screen [Jan. 6]. Some quick arithmetic rewarded me with the knowledge that my husband, now in his sixth year of teaching in a public high school, is earning almost as much as the cow ponies, mustangs and cayuses. My kingdom for a hoss...
...outguessing game, called "Who gets it next?", which authors of combat novels play with their readers. Will it be the tough sergeant or the hero's buddy who doesn't make it back from his 23rd mission? No such game is played in Wolfgang Ott's grim first novel about the frightful death by bleeding of the German navy during World War II. There is no question of what will happen to his characters; they are all doomed, and who gets it next makes no difference...
...theater, with its blunt visual effects, is less suited to so ticklish a story than fiction would be, and the authors of Miss Isabel are not suited to it at all. After eying a grim but at least genuine theme-that the mother's pathos may complete the daughter's tragedy-they back quickly away from it to trade in sticky pathos for pathos' sake. With such facile props as a small boy, a weird Chinese lady and a blind young Scot, they work up a mild tearjerker seasoned with laughs. But they invoke no tears...
...boys who had not even bothered to reply. Add to this the startling fact that in the summer of 1957, in one state, there were a dozen good colleges whose freshmen classes were not yet filled, and that one excellent university opened with 50 places vacant. All these are grim facts. A tremendous waste of time and effort is involved...
...received the dip at year's end without alarm because they regarded it as a "recession as planned." As consumer prices had gone up month after month for the biggest rise (2.5%) in five years, the Federal Reserve Board, under tough-minded Chairman William McChesney Martin, worked with grim determination to keep the economy from growing too big, too fast. Martin stumped the nation preaching "inflation, not deflation, is the real danger." To check all phases of the buying jag-a rise in industrial expansion, piling up of business inventories and increases in consumer purchasing-the Fed squeezed tight...