Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under those grim stone turrets at West Point, buttoned-up, close-cropped cadets still "hup, two, three, four" in precision parades. Unchanged in 30 years are the slate-grey cadet uniforms, and it is still forbidden for a cadet to hold a girl's hand when he walks her on campus. But beneath the surface sameness, the Point within the past five years has undergone a drastic, evolutionary change to match the new ways of what its teachers like to call "the profession of arms." Harsh hazing and pointless indignities have given way to a more mature approach...
...Mekong River. The Delta is the dwelling place of more than a third of the country's population, the rice basket for half of its food-and the Viet Cong's prime source of men, money and supplies. The Communists very nearly seized it all in the grim months of late 1964 and early 1965 before the U.S. buildup. District towns were overrun, scores of outposts captured and destroyed, and government troops driven into the dubious safety of large towns. Huge tracts of Delta land fell under Viet Cong sway...
...pages. Simon & Schuster. $30. An explosion of color that richly and often wittily tells the complicated story of Spain's long journey from obscurity (TIME, Jan. 21). The somber Iberian chord is struck again and again-in El Greco's haunted saints and cities, Goya's grim disasters of war, processions of penitents flogging themselves and one another. Appropriately, the final plate is Picasso's brush drawing of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza...
...public does not defray the costs in full at the box office, obviously the difference can be made up only through private philanthropy or Government grants. Figuring the iron law of live performance v. technology, the authors predict that even Broadway faces "grim" times without some sort of help. For the rest of the performing arts, adds the report, direct and vastly increased subsidization is essential...
...narcotics agents (Howard and Marshall) assigned to trace a shipment of radio activated opium from the poppy field of Persia to the junk shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight camel?"). By the time the heroes...