Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time. Brown launched a grim defense of his administration amid nervous pauses to consult notes. Xixon shunned notes and. in his own opener, took gleefully to the attack. The pressure frazzled Brown; he answered a question about welfare payments for unwed mothers by earnestly outlining the plight of "mothers deserted by their fathers...
There are 10,000 U.S. military "advisers" in South Viet Nam and, it some times seems, as many correspondents. The war they report consists mostly of grim, isolated jungle skirmishes; as for the big picture, they usually color it gloomy. But in recent months the gloom has been a few shades lighter, and at times hope has broken through. Last week, before the National Assembly in Saigon, President Ngo Dinh Diem announced: "We are recovering the initiative, even during the rainy season, which heretofore the enemy has considered favorable to him. Victory is not only sure but imminent." Among...
Beyond Satire. Absurdity kept cropping out all during the prolonged wrangle between unbending Governor Barnett and the U.S. Government, as if the participants were following a script by that Mississippian master of grim comedy, William Faulkner, who until his death last July was Oxford's most famous resident. After turning Meredith away at Jackson, Barnett got stalled in the elevator for ten minutes while the crowd out side the building yelled "We want Ross!" A gifted satirist could hardly have invented the dialogue between Barnett and Doar. And there was something sadly comic about James Meredith's desire...
Barnett's overt defiance confronted President Kennedy with a grim dilemma. He could not let Barnett get away with persisting in his defiance; that would invite defiance all over the South, subverting not only the Negroes' progress toward justice but the entire federal system. But the use of federal force against a state also damages the federal system. And as practical Democrats, John and Robert Kennedy had to reflect upon the prospect that military intervention in Mississippi might be politically disastrous for the Democratic Party in the South...
...poured into the little Swiss Alpine town of Kleine Scheidegg to gawk at a grisly spectacle. Hanging by a rope high up on the north wall of the Eiger (Ogre) was the body of a man, swinging free in summer, frozen to the wall in winter. It was the grim finale to a disastrous assault on the Eiger made by two Germans and two Italians in 1957. The retelling of their ordeal by Jack Olsen, a senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is an engrossing study of the dark drives that make men climb...