Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...substantive accord to come out of Vienna was Nikita Khrushchev's statement that he favored "an effective ceasefire" in Laos. In his otherwise grim speech reporting on the meeting, President John Kennedy declared himself "hopeful" that this could "be translated into new attitudes at Geneva...
...Geneva, Western negotiators were grim. They had been sitting around waiting for the return of Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko with word from Moscow. But when he arrived next day, he was almost mocking. "My pockets are empty," he said...
While a number of domestic comedies are on view, ranging from fair to sad-including The Pleasure of His Company, The Last Time I Saw Archie, On the Double-the field at the moment is dominated by the grim and the foreign...
...MOVIES: the accents are fairly grim, too. The plot of The Young Savages is straight from Hollywood's pasteboard jungle, but the documentary scenes of punks and finks roaming through Manhattan's tenement-glutted, garbage-strewn juvenile jungle carry the authority of the headlines. In The Secret Ways, Richard Widmark is the hero on the run, and the Communists are the heavies in this derring-documentary, photographed with edgy excitement...
...signifies, too, an impatience with using the future as an excuse for dull ritual or as a grim projection of personal disappointments. As an excuse, the future is often invoked to sanction a witless routine leading to rewards, honors, appointments--the joke being that "status" as a goal, like grades, is a confusion of sign for substance...