Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poland waited to hear what the Cardinal would advise now. Wyszynski has said nothing yet. But a few weeks ago, he circulated a grim private letter to all of Poland's 15.000 priests, warning them to "prepare for the worst . . . even jail or physical harm." Empty Streets. Churches are still full, for Poles are highly religious, and the vast quantity of vodka they consume is hardly sufficient solace for a life that is endlessly drab. Industrial production is up, and food supplies are adequate, but Warsaw, like most Polish cities, is bleak and shabby; at night...
...slice of lifelessness. Small, dun-colored, repetitious detail is ladled out till the audience is saturated in it. There is a certain mild humor in the repetitions, whether of the family's deadness or the offstage boy friend's didactic, doctrinaire lust for life. The humor turns grim when he rejects the girl, herself now lost between two worlds, too low for a hawk and too high for a buzzard. An honest but limited method, Wesker's leads to truthful but limited effects, and to believable characters; and in a theater season of flaccid falsity, there...
...shooting to a 16-mm. movie camera. The honor of being the "invited gun" was to have gone to Prince Philip, who during the royal family's tour of India and Pakistan has potted hundreds of duck and partridge, plus one sizable tiger, has been dubbed "the grim reaper" by the press...
...Many Cars? The disappearance of February snows brought car buyers out. After a grim initial ten days in February, auto sales for the second third of the month rose 11%, jumped another 13% in the final third. Even so, auto sales through mid-February are still trailing the same period last year by an unhappy 23%. Talking optimistically, automen hope February's rousing finish is the start of a spring surge. But Detroit is taking no production gambles. For the first two months of 1961, production was down 42% from 1960's January-February output of about...
Perhaps the most impressive about the rally was its magni Radical-conservative leaders, ially William F. Buckley, Jr. National Review, have long top priority to recruiting stu. Yet in the past, rallies for purpose have been less than phant. They usually attracted d 500 people -- mostly grim old ladies. The one last Friday, however, was an unqualified success which reduced even so sentimental a liberal as columnist Murray Kempton (New York Post) to savage comments about "children" who don't respect their (liberal) elders, and to bitter disillusionment about the merits of John Dewey's educational reforms. Four thousand attended...