Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feasts & Magic. The grass-roots Mahayana Buddhism in the Viet Nam villages is a long way from such grim practices. It usually takes the form of the easygoing Amidism, in which a paradise called "Pure Land" awaits the intense faithful who repeats a simple prayer. It is strongly influenced by the magical practices of corrupted Taoism, imported from China around the 7th century, and by Confucianism, which stresses ethical behavior...
...hinted that if the African party won, his reign might be short. The worried Seyyid Jamshid was said to be ready to abdicate and earn a living running a motorboat service for tourists. With his allies of the Arab Nationalist Party still in control, the Sultan was spared that grim necessity. But the country at large is wondering what will happen between the two feuding factions when the British troops pull out. To preserve the peace then might be quite a job even for the witch doctors...
...demonstrators again descended upon Dizzyland. This time Fehsenfeld was not standing in the doorway, and a few demonstrators walked inside. "You are not wanted in here," cried Fehsenfeld. "Understand, you come in here at your own risk." Then he locked his door. The demonstrators looked around-and got a grim surprise. Waiting in the restaurant were more than a dozen white toughs. They charged into the demonstrators and beat them up while angry Negroes outside, hearing the screams and groans inside Dizzyland, pounded on the locked door...
Bread & Water. This grim aspect of the holiday was bitterly marked by the Black Sash Organization, a handful of courageous white matrons, who oppose apartheid. Said their spokesman: "Family Day becomes a farce when so many of our African families are disrupted." Wearing their customary black sashes, members of the group went into retreat, sat in bare rooms on hard chairs for 24 hours of complete silence, eating only bread and water...
...fiction just the same. But in recounting his recent six-month tour of the U.S.-and in switching from novels to what might loosely be called nonfiction-Butor has produced a whopping-bad nonbook. It presents America in a nightmarish jumble of road signs, city names, ornithological notes and grim historical oddments all strung together in a style that at its best suggests E. E. Cummings and John Dos Passes at their worst...