Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the high, grim wall that surrounds the house, hawkers shout, traffic rumbles and pedestrians chatter. Inside the wall, no one speaks to Anthony Grey, Reuters' man in Peking. Grey is confined to a 12-ft.-square whitewashed room, whose window is partially boarded up. Through the window, he can see the wall, and he can catch only a glimpse of a tiny courtyard and-again-the wall. The door of his room stands open, so. that the ever-present guard at the gate can see him at all times. For five months of the year, the room...
Earlier, similarly grim testimony had come from Actress Kitty Arseni, accused by the Athens regime of having been an intermediary for the recording of a "freedom poem" by Composer Mikis Theodorakis. In Athens, a government spokesman announced angrily that Greece would boycott further commission hearings this week if the sessions were not kept secret. Marketakis and Meletis, meanwhile, were granted permanent residence in Norway...
...result, most of the delegates then concluded that the franc would be devalued. The French delegates gave the grim impression of men accepting the inevitable...
Prison Vignettes. What angers Capote most is the explanation from the ABC-TV president. The footage in Death Row, said Elton Rule simply, was "too grim." "Well," retorted Capote, "what were you expecting-Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm?" Capote, who has since acquired rights to the $250,000 film, screened it for TV critics in Manhattan recently. There were chilling prison vignettes and fascinating interviews with condemned convicts, as well as a defense of capital punishment by Ronald Reagan. But the film lacked organization and a coherent point of view. With some favorable reviews to his credit, Capote obviously hopes that...
...mockery of himself and the commercial world. By contrast, Seltzer's crazy products are mainly dreamed up as a kind of cheerful game to be played with his dying son, and so become part of the sacred conspiracy of the living to make life seem less of a grim joke...