Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A biography by a writer who knows his Swift, is also aware of the grim literary and Freudian exegeses that have clouded his brilliant satires...
JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A biography by a writer who knows his Swift, and is aware, also, of the grim literary and Freudian exegeses that have clouded his brilliant satires...
...partitioning has run dry, hence Northerners are being thrown into the fight by the Reds. But the blatant sending in of Northerners also means that Hanoi, which has tried to pretend that it was not really directing the war in the South, is, in the grim words of one U.S. official, "ready to take off the eighth veil...
Ozarks to Oxford. He entered the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville at 16, because his father had given him a grim choice of how to spend his summers: work in the Coke plant or go to summer school. He chose school, earned strings of A's, also starred as a halfback with the university's Razorbacks...
...Jersey Democrat Richard J. Hughes, planning to seek a second term next fall and facing a hostile, Republican-dominated legislature, tossed off a 31,700-word message in the Great Society vein, designed to make sure "that New Jersey does not become a grim preview of a polluted, congested world of the future." His new programs would add $153 million to the $634 million state budget. Hughes wants a state sales or income tax, which the legislature-under federal court order to reapportion itself and stand for re-election next November-is not about to give...