Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about is how to grab off more for himself." The young idolize Fidel Castro, whose revolution in their eyes embodies the authentic ideological fervor that has gone from their own. This vision was heightened by Poet Evtushenko, who visited Cuba last year and in Pravda proclaimed: "Revolution may be grim but not, goddamit, dull...
...disappointed generation," it is devoting an ever increasing amount of space to letters, articles and sermons on youth's problems. There has been a startling increase in alcoholism among the young (but a decline in adult drinking); Mos cow has twelve sobering-up tanks where grim pictures of passed-out repeaters are taken and pinned on the bulletin board at their factory or university...
...word from Washington is unusually grim: our own astronauts have, alas, turned from the ways of the Stakhanovites to those of the revanchists. Maj. Slayton, next man in the firing line, has been barred from space--his heart palpitates. And then there's Linda Glenn, 16, nation's sweetheart. This kid managed to delay her high school's election for class president until the day after Daddy's flight. Guess who got the unanimous acclaim of the senior class...
...World War II, Moslems staging an independence celebration in Setif clashed with the police and Europeans. Some 5,000 Moslems were killed, and the French began arresting everyone in sight, including Benkhedda and his fellow committee members on the Moslem Students Union. He spent six months in grim Barberousse prison-which the F.L.N. promises to raze and replace with a park in memory of the dead of the revolution...
...biggest chunk is an 8-ft. by 10-ft. section of the tail. Yet the skilled crash detectives of the U.S. Government's Civil Aeronautics Board can identify and check every tiny fragment. Out of the grim jigsaw puzzle, they will slowly and carefully extract the "probable cause" of the accident. Then other 707s, forewarned and perhaps modified, may be saved from making plunging turns into disaster...