Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scenes that first made him famous in the back streets and industrial areas of Buffalo, where he took a job as a wallpaper designer, worked on art in his spare hours. By the time he decided to devote himself full time to his art, his realistic scenes of grim train yards, black iron drawbridges, rows of workers' unpainted houses had put him in the forefront of the American Scene painters of the 1930s. But as one critic quipped, Burchfield, with his prevailing gloomy mood (see cut above), seemed too often like Painter Edward Hopper on a rainy...
...perhaps it should first be said that the Sebastians are played, in gay holiday style, by the Lunts. Otherwise, their being ordered by a Communist general to read the minds of his supper guests and their getting nastily involved in political intrigue might create an impression of something grim and arouse hopes of something gripping. As it is, The Great Sebastians is not the least bit grim or gripping-only, now and then, rather ploddingly serious. In itself, in fact, Lindsay & Grouse's "melodramatic comedy" is chiefly a sequence of well-planned opportunities for the Lunts to display their...
...National High School Federation looked back over its football season and reported a grim fact: six youngsters died as a result of injuries. Heads hitting against the ground, knees or helmets accounted for four fatal concussions; one player died of a fractured vertebra; the sixth died of a ruptured kidney. There was scant consolation in the discovery that the death rate of .90 per 100,000 players was the second lowest on record. Lowest: 1952, with...
...pull their weight. His heroes are generally fellows whose characters are compounded of the good, old-fashioned virtues, and their crises sometimes find them with little but hope to sustain them under pressure. His new novel, Boon Island-the first since Lydia Bailey in 1947-is a grim little tale of survival. Based on a true story, it tells of a shipwreck in which each man's size and courage are fully measured during 24 days of simple horror...
Thus, Publisher Ferger hoped to quell the uproar over Enquirer management (TIME, Dec. 5) in which Ratliff had already been dumped as vice president and secretary of the company. But the firings,, only intensified the bitterness. At a meeting later in Cincinnati's Cox Theater, staffers sat in grim silence for 90 minutes while Ferger, 61, denied charges by Ratliff and Cronin that his own salary and bonus (1955 total: $104,699) and those of Assistant Publisher Eugene Duffield ($62,319) were excessive. Moreover, said Ferger, financial backers had urged him to insist on a ten-year contract; while...