Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These life histories are soundly written and the people they describe are interesting enough. But the book's structure is dissatisfying: the flashbacks bring John and Herta back to the present time and then simply drop them there on the last page-still sitting in grim, unhappy silence. The author promises a Shavian clash of right and left, Adam and Rib. and several times seems on the point of producing one. But he settles too easily for tepid psychologizing, of which Liere is a surfeit these days, rather than social satire, which is in short supply. What could have...
...running mate have gone over with the public a lot better than Kennedy's speech (which swiped at Nixon) and his tactical choice of Lyndon Johnson. Round Two is the dead-end session of Congress, which is creaking toward adjournment. There Kennedy met with a nightmarish series of grim surprises and jolting defeats...
...high school diploma, Maggie went to work as the lone teacher in a one-room rural schoolhouse, on a salary of $8.50 per week (her early minimal wages have had no small part in Maggie Smith's long sympathy and activity for labor legislation). But one grim, icy winter was enough for her, and in the spring she retreated to the telephone company. Then, for eight years, she was an all-purpose employee (circulation, advertising, editorial) of the Skowhegan Independent Reporter. In 1930 Maggie married Clyde H. Smith, the selectman with the fascinating voice, after a leisurely, four-year...
Then, a column moved down the dusty road toward Katanga itself, 100 miles away. There, Tshombe's hastily mobilized Katanga army was deployed, in grim determination to resist with machine guns, mines and booby traps. Stretches of the single-track rail line leading into Katanga from Kasai were ripped up, and armed Katangans with dynamite rushed out to block the few dirt roads at the Kasai frontier. Most of Tshombe's force was a ragtag outfit, but Belgian officers at Kamina airbase were openly supplying him with spotter planes and tactical advice. At week...
Joining in the off-hours fun was the great U.S. men's track team. But the days were spent in grim practice for the main events of the Games: the duels this week on the brick-red track of the Olympic Stadium. Decathlon Star Rafer Johnson (TIME cover. Aug. 29), proud flagbearer of the U.S. team in the opening ceremonies, spent up to six hours a day getting ready for his battle with Formosa's Yang Chuan-kwang, and Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov. Foreigners flocked to watch the workouts of another U.S. superstar: Boston University...