Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artificially flavored language that tries to be folk poetry but turns out as horrible prose. Doubtless some people will think it delightful, but anyone with memories of a J. M. Synge must find its whimsies bogus, while people with memories of a J. M. Barrie should find its cuteness grim...
SHORTLY after World War II, a grim, cliff-faced German named Max Beckmann arrived in the U.S. He was without honor in his own country; Hitler had branded him a "degenerate painter" and hounded him from the land. He had spent the war years in semi-hiding in Amsterdam, developing his own rainbow-hued brand of German expressionism. Imported by Washington University in St. Louis to teach art, Beckmann set about changing the course of American painting, and kept at it until his death in 1950. Although he himself was never an abstract painter, the New York school of abstract...
...transport tragedies, 5,300 miles and 34 hours apart, last week brought 1960's grim record to eight major fatal crashes, 326 dead...
...Harvard's Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender, the hold-down headache is "grim, grimmer, grimmest." But he says it with a certain smile. In the past five years, Ivy League colleges have been able to raise their admission standards 50%. Reason: brighter and brighter applicants. Last year two-thirds of Princeton's applicants were deemed perfectly capable of Princeton work. But only one-third could be admitted, and Princeton skimmed the richest cream. Says Director of Admission C. William Edwards: "The bottom one-third of the applicants of ten years ago wouldn't even bother...
With the change in the corporation's stature, points out Eugene V. Rostow, dean of the Yale Law School, the public image of it has drastically changed. Once, the corporation was symbolized by "a grim and energetic tyrant, single-mindedly driving his staff on to new feats of money-making." Today it proudly boasts of its duties to society, gives out scholarships to deserving students, sparks fund drives, joins in community affairs...