Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been the pattern for centuries. Thousands of volunteers turned out patriotically to dig the slit trenches (Hanoi's air-raid shelters) that have been cut through the once verdant parks along the Red River and the capital's two lakes, reminders of Ho Chi Minh's grim determination to pursue his quest for control of all Viet Nam, even if it costs him his economy and the lives of his people...
Stirring Opposition. Despite the progress, many Brazilians are less than enthusiastic about Castello Branco. Partly it is the man. Grim and aloof, he carries out his duties with no fuss, no fanfare-and little apparent relish. Critics charge that he is the prisoner of a military clique that uses anti-Communism as an excuse to run roughshod over the country's laws. Some local military commanders are still arresting suspected subversives and holding them without bringing specific charges. Last week an estimated 1,500 "suspects" remained locked away, including Miguel Arraes, ex-governor of Pernambuco...
Gothic mystery, savage modern satire, heroic epic-Castle Keep interweaves all three to create a surreal small masterpiece about the horrors and grim humors...
...team of six full-time reporters, headed by Bronx-born Barry Gottehrer, has been poking into all the city's grimy corners, digging up stories of the grim conditions with which most New Yorkers are all too familiar. Articles have appeared on blighted schools and hospitals; on urban renewal, which is administered so haphazardly that some people do not know from one day to the next whether they will be allowed to stay in their homes; on the long-debated Lower Manhattan Expressway, which has been hanging fire since 1941. "This series demonstrates," says Managing Editor Murray M. Weiss...
...that rare bird, a story that celebrates the joys of breaking taboos without ever once dishing out comeuppance griefs. Mrs. Capper's Birthday is a gentle portrait of a World War II widow who has never quite adjusted to life without "Fred." Me and the Girls is a grim little account of the last reflections of a third-rate homo sexual entertainer dying of cancer. Not the gay Coward...