Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of Communist dead probably ran two or three times that high, because the enemy carries off with him so many of his comrades' corpses. U.S. losses were also fairly high. In last week's single battle, 150 U.S. paratroopers fell and another 250 were wounded-the grim measure of American determination to deny Dak To to the enemy...
...moved the family from one small Texas town to another-"those Panhandle towns where the main street goes on and on and on, and there's nothing much behind it, like a movie set." Hailey acknowledges that the play "was anchored in my childhood, but it was too grim. I always saw it sad. Always turning that knife. Nobody wants to go to a theater to cry about my family. I had to get far enough away from it to see it as funny before I could write...
...student audience speckled with hecklers shouting "Murderer!," "Fascist!," "Lies!" and "Hell no, we won't go!" Rusk at first shrugged off the heckling with a joke: "Thank you for letting me be your Halloween guest. But after a student yelled, "You invited yourself," the urbane Georgian grew grim. "Let's be clear about one thing, and I'll be as gentle as I can," he said. "I am prepared to be your guest, but I will not engage in a shouting match with anyone." The measured seriousness of the statement sobered the crowd, and later when...
...propagandist playwrights of the 1930's have, both politically and artistically, plummeted out of popular favor. Their folksy brand of unflinching radicalism--often Marxism--makes sense neither to the new leftist nor the new liberal. And the grim seriousness with which they tackled boring problems like poverty and bigotry seems incomprehensible to an age of absurdists--whose drama generally preys on problems once or twice-removed from the realm of the reparable...
...kids enter Bostons ghetto schools with the same expectations and the same motivations as children all over America. They come, as other children do, with faces bright, with hopes held high, with energy, with dreams, with expectation. For six years, eight years, ten years, 12 years, they face a grim array of hostile teachers. To the reaching hands of the children are given dry and thankless texts, books long outdated, unloved, unlovely, books teachers can respect no more than can their pupils, books from which few children learn and from which no child should...