Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role of Tancredi, danced by Nureyev, was conceived as the only flesh-and-blood character on stage; the rest of the roles were grim and ghostly reflections of his troubled personality. To achieve a fittingly "queasy-uneasy" setting for the journey into the subconscious, Australian Set Designer Barry Kay studied various plants under a microscope, then conjured a shadowy, organic world streaked with veins like a bloodshot eyeball. Into this membranous setting, Tancredi is symbolically born, wobbling to life to face his first crisis. It comes in the form of two female images representing sacred and profane love. Torn between...
...step up taxation, rice levies and recruitment in areas they control, reaching down even to 14-year-olds to keep up their 3,500-men-a-month draftee rate in South Viet Nam. Once there was a kind of care free banditry to Viet Congmanship; increasingly, it is a grim way of life in which a village youth will very likely get killed. Increasingly, the Viet Cong are being forced to rely on terror and assassinations to keep their own village areas in line...
Quite by coincidence, the 15 NATO nations chose the day to begin their semiannual foreign ministers meeting. On the agenda of the Allies, who formed their pact in fear in 1949 to face the deadly challenge of Soviet expansion, was not one single grim item of cold war business. Indeed, when they sat down in the modernistic Palais des Congrès on a hilltop in Brussels, their principal problem was France, not Russia, and most of the rest of the discussion was concerned with devising some sort of rapprochement with Eastern Europe...
...newest thing in attending commencement exercises is walking out on them; thus can the grim and hot-eyed war protester strike at the Government at the cost of some hapless official waiting in cap and gown for the honorary degree that the protesters conceive to be a seal of approval...
...Vital Core. For the Thais, proud and sensitive to any hint of interference by farangs or foreigners in their national life, the enormous U.S. buildup is a painful concession to the grim facts of Southeast Asian life. They talk about it as little as they can, admit virtually nothing officially, and have carefully made only gentleman's agreements, one at a time, for U.S. use of their bases. The U.S. in turn respects Thai feelings by trying, as one official puts it, to present a "low silhouette" on the Thai landscape. But inevitably, with the growing accumulation of American...