Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grim grin" is the way some of his stiff-lipped countrymen seem to pronounce his name, offering a capsule description of the man's work. Graham Greene's fiction over the past four decades has alternated between pain and painful pleasure. He has explored the depths of damnation-and salvation-but with gusto, he has also turned out masterly, this-worldly entertainments. Perhaps the difference between the two is not really as great as it sometimes seems...
Sidney Nolan's drawings do not, in general, add much to this excellent book. Where the intent is light humor, they succeed modestly; but Lowell and Juvenal are similar in that they frequently intend to repel through the use of humor not light but grim, and Mr. Nolan's attempts to repel only amuse. But one buys the book to read Lowell, and what one reads is surely contemporary poetry of the first rank. After twenty years, this seems for the present generation closer to fact than opinion, though taste in succeeding ones will doubtless fluctuate. For the present...
...infantryman's war continues to escalate in fury in Viet Nam. Figures released in Saigon for the week ending March 25 showed a grim new record of 274 American soldiers dead in a single week. The previous high of 240 had stood since the week before Thanksgiving in 1965, when the battle of la Drang Valley took place. The toll was exacted at an immense expenditure of Communist blood, with a new record of 2,774 enemy dead in the week. The figures brought to 8,560 the number of Americans fallen on the battlefields of Viet Nam since...
...Taste of Honey may sound like a documentary on wayward little people in the big city. But it's not that grim. Shelagh Delaney brings everybody on and off-stage to music. She cuts out hunks of time -- scenes glid into each other instead of stumbling along in supra-realistic connection. The characters are an articulate crew; they put each other down without stuttering. Their bitchy banter is as satisfying as a good dogfight...
...ebullient man about town who loves to put a few cruzeiros on his favorite horse, chat with attractive women and tell amusing stories on himself. Last week, as the two men marched up the aisle of Brasilia's Chamber of Deputies building for the swearing-in, a grim Castello Branco looked straight ahead; Costa, relaxed and enjoying himself, threw genial glances to friends and relatives. After the oath of office, Castello Branco stiffly shook hands with Costa's wife, lolanda; Costa, by contrast, warmly kissed the hand of his predecessor's daughter, then those of Castello...