Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which included one of the best riots of the century. But the other years were also, in their own way, exciting ones for President James Bryant Content's second Harvard class, and the world into which '38 graduated continued to provide another kind of excitement, though more formidable and grim...
Have I felt any one out? Please overlook it, for there is an explanation. It is a very nice thing when a grim old reviewer can go to a local comedy and just laugh and laugh. Hats off to the Loeb; it has come...
...where does this leave Richard Burton? Well, for his work in the same picture, he made $250,000. And if that seems grim enough, there is something even grimmer. In a burst of generosity some years ago, Liz gave her husband a 50% cut of her proceeds from the picture. So Eddie Fisher, who is still her husband, will make perhaps 14 times as much from Cleopatra as Richard Burton. He'll be rolling in money, but that...
...Arnold called Hebraism-the urge of conscience to follow the best moral light man has-and Hellenism-the spirit of inquiry that constantly questions conscience to be sure that it does not mislead, that the best light is not superstitious darkness. He foresaw that the 19th century's grim but necessary preoccupation with industrial growth would pass away, and a time would come "when man has made himself perfectly comfortable and has ... to determine what to do with himself." To provide a standard for that coming day, he proposed to seek out and proclaim "the best that has been...
Reviewed in grim detail were the technical problems that had kept Thresher in overhaul for nine months at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The sub's defects, witnesses insisted, were remedied before the ship took to sea for its post-overhaul cruise. But, tragically and all too obviously, something did in fact go wrong. And the list of Thresher's troubles was indeed formidable. Items...