Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stark, spiny, thinly painted work of 26-year-old Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). Painter Buffet was almost made to order to catch the imagination of postwar France, then wrapped up in the gloomy cult of existentialism. His subject matter was skinned rabbits, sticklike nudes, grim, bare interiors. Even his inarticulateness suited the times. Said Buffet, in one of his rare statements about his own work: "I don't like to discuss the subject . . . mainly because I have nothing to say. I paint like a carpenter who saws wood, like a blacksmith who hammers iron." Buffet...
...Twenty miles out of town, workmen were frantically erecting a village of prefab houses for the conference hangers-on. In the lobby of Bangkok's Trocadero Hotel, where the bigwigs are to stay, painters laid new colors on walls, ceiling and passing guests. In the upper stories, a grim-faced "sanitation engineer," armed with a huge, mechanical Flit-gun, mowed down his enemies by the thousands. "The flies are dying," cracked one preconference resident, "like hotel guests...
...long in Toby Street the army trucks rumbled. Some of the Toby Street folk were not sorry to move, for grim as they are, the iron-roofed brick cottages at Meadowlands are an improvement on much of Sophiatown. But many objected to being moved because they are black. Said Dr. Alfred Xuma, a 60-year-old Sophiatowner who worked his way up from tribal herdsman to a medical degree at the University of Minnesota and the respect of the medical profession: "What happens to people like me? Must "I now be expected to return to my tribal ways...
...Israel, .streets fluttered with black-draped flags, and the Knesset was crowded with grim-faced Israelis assembled to hear Premier Moshe Sharett say: "Egypt will not be sustained by the blood it has thus spilled. The devotion to Zion of untold numbers of Jews was not stifled in the past by persecution, nor will it be in the future...
...visiting politician dropped by the senate chamber in Springfield's old statehouse to watch one of the sittings, later described the scene: "He [Lincoln] sat to the artist with his right foot on top of the left and both feet turned inward-pigeon fashion-round-shouldered-looking grim as fate, sanguinity his expression, occasionally breaking into a broad grin ... He chatted, told stories, laughed at his own wit-and the humor of others-and in one way and another made a couple of hours pass merrily and never once lost his dignity or committed himself to an opinion...