Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that may grow out of cooperative federal-state planning under the new law-which provides matching grants to states over ten years-will not produce results for years. Meanwhile, Johnson promised federal help to parched regions. Then he produced a report from his Water Resources Council, which contained the grim reminder that "the most immediate, lowest cost solution to a rapidly dwindling supply is drastically curtailed consumption...
Everything Upside-Down. A grim picture emerged of unchecked decline in the quality of big-city schools. Administrators, it was charged, are failing to face the implications of the sociological revolution now under way in U.S. urban life. A primary need, many scholars agreed, is top executive and intellectual talent on big-city boards of education. "Everything is upside-down," summed up former Political Science Professor Hubert Humphrey. "The better schools are in the better areas, and the poor schools are in the poor areas. I'm not asking that those on the top receive less. But a nation...
Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse: three glum Dutch uncles dominated the tone of German literature in the first half of the 20th century. The first two were world-famous figures-Hauptmann as a grim Grossvater of a social realism (The Weavers), Mann as a laboriously brilliant intellectual who wrote the era's most imposing novel of ideas (The Magic Mountain). Hesse, who died in 1962, was little known outside Central Europe, even after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...only ones who hastily contracted the wanderlust bug after noting how well The Fugitive was doing on the lam. The most blatant copy will be Run for Your Life (NBC), in which Ben Gazzara is told he has 18 months to live (roughly three TV seasons). So with the grim reaper on his trail, he sets off to live dangerously all over the world...
...People think of surgery," writes the author, "as a grim, tense business with the surgeon snapping 'Scalpel!' and 'Clamp!' and everything going along in dramatic silence except for the click, click of instruments. This is just a lot of hogwash. About half the time the surgeon is telling dirty jokes with the fixed intent of embarrassing the scrub nurse. The rest of the time there is bickering, or gossip, or talk about how things were last winter in Palm Springs, or how many suction cups on a squid's tentacles, or whether a woman...