Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Living Room (by Graham Greene) has, at worst, a very real value in the current theater: it brings darkness to light places. In this grim drama, which emerges as a kind of distinguished failure, Graham Greene begins where most of the successes leave off. Amid all its spiritual confusions, there is no touch of compromise, and though it clearly goes downhill, it never once turns off its own steeply rocky road...
University physicists are sitting up on a grim "death watch" this morning at the Everett St. Cyclotron Lab after starting up the balky 745-ton machine for a non-stop, three week marathon...
...days before Pogo, Li'l Abner and the cold war, one of the best-loved characters in U.S. comic strips was Fred Opper's amiable tramp, Happy Hooligan. Today the grim commissars of Russia use Happy's name to describe a crime they regard as the essence of capitalist decadence. Last week the wife of a U.S. embassy employee in Moscow was officially accused of "hooliganism" and asked to leave the country. According to accounts blared out over Radio Moscow, pert and pretty Mrs. Betty Sommerlatte, whose husband Karl is an embassy second secretary, had viciously punched...
Inside the grim, guarded barracks of the Teheran 2nd Armored Division ten shabby prisoners ate a dinner of stew and rice. They were the first to be convicted among 612 Tudeh plotters arrested, last September for planning a Communist revolution. Now they sat under sentence of death. Yet they seemed optimistic: this was Iran after all. where the ins do not ordinarily kill the outs-on the theory that the roles might some day be reversed. The ten had appealed their death sentences, and looked to the young Shah for reprieve...
...dramatist, lived here." On hand were Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland (who recently described his inherited stigma in Son of Oscar Wilde-TIME, Sept. 27), Actor Michael Redgrave, Poets T. S. Eliot and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Lord Cecil Douglas, grandson of the unforgiving ninth Marquess of Queensberry, whose grim insistence that Wilde go behind bars was the prime force that landed him, convicted of sodomy, in Reading Gaol...