Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social life applies only to the last two years of undergraduate life. Freshmen are forbidden even to walk down the Club row; sophomores are but grudgingly permitted to participate in a few club functions, and full membership does not come until the junior year. The first year is especially grim. For most new men, added to the discomfort of adjusting to a new way of life are many social restrictions. Meals in the Commons are hectic and crowded, there is no place for fairly large groups of lower classmen to get together informally, and there are few opportunities to meet...
...Roman and Grecian and grim...
...friends with home-cooked meals worthy of a Parisian chef, and sent them home glowing with his fine vintages. Not even the postman was allowed to pass Marc's house on his rounds without sampling its hospitality. Most of Marc's friends tried to ignore his grim joke about suicide, but Marc would not let them. "By the way," he told his favorite fishing companion a few weeks ago, "I want you to have my fishing equipment. I'm killing myself at the end of this month, you know, and I shan't need...
Among the supporting cast, Oscar Homolko is wonderfully ingratiating as the Community loss who brings Potts to Moscow. The most that can be said for Nadia Gray is that she manages to look well even in the grim garb of the Kremlin...
Studio One opened its sixth TV season last week by boldly offering an hour of utter despair. A grim, gruesome, humorless show, it was television at its best. The teleplay: George Orwell's bitter satire, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which Mrs. Orwell released to Studio One only after assurances that there would be no tampering with her late husband's blueprint of the ultimate police state...