Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Frenchmen, sympathetic to his aims but doubtful of his chances, are asking questions. Is Mendès an innocent in all but economic matters, surrounded by inexperienced intellectuals united only by their dislike of inertia? Or is he a self-disciplined realist who expresses a French mood of grim resolution? Or is he Kerensky, the last man before surrender...
...section of Lager-kvist's short stories and fables from 1920 to 1935. Each sample illustrates in its own way the Lagerkvist habit of walking with one foot firmly on the ground, the other in the clouds. They include: ¶ The Lift That Went Down into Hell, a grim little tale in which a lover and his mistress, their lips "moist with wine," step unsuspectingly into a hotel elevator...
Against the rather grim cases of academic freedom violations, one stands out in comic relief. The happenings this year in Alabama would provide material for the funniest political satire since "Of Thee I Sing." It is, however, only because good sense finally won out over monumental blindness that the case can be viewed with any sort of amusement. The spirit that motivated Alabama's Act 888 is not funny...
Some, like Peter Bove, strayed temporarily from the political paths of their fathers. "Came the depression and the grim realities of life and my vote along with a few million others was cast for Franklin D. Roosevelt," Bove writes. "We thought he would save the day. And maybe he did. But when he began to drown the little pigs and plow the wheat fields under my views changed. I became a Republican and have voted so ever since...
...Grand Rapids last week, auto deallers heard some grim news from Admiral Frederick J. Bell, executive vice president of the National Automobile Dealers Association. In the last year, reported Bell, a total of 1,757 auto dealers have gone out of business in 40 states, and the number is growing each day. The main cause: auto bootlegging, by which some dealers sell new models to used-car dealers for resale below list price, thus undercutting the market...