Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the charisma of his lectures, Mr. Fleming stresses the solitude of a professor in talking about his own role. When asked for an interview, his first words were a mock tragic, "how grim." To him the "life of scholarship is a private sort of existence," and this makes it appealing. Privacy has meant that he sees men in other fields infrequently. Even among his fellow historians conversations follow university politics or national affairs, and intellectual privacy is respected. "I have seldom in my whole career had discussions of a scholarly or academic nature with men like Frank Friedel...
...concrete, grim and hard...
Lawd Today, by Richard Wright. Writ ten before Native Son, but now published for the first time (three years after Wright's death), this novel of a brutalized Chicago Negro in the 1930s is a grim reminder of a time, not long ago, when the pain caused by race prejudice was mainly economic...
...cold-blooded killing pointed up the grim fact that nearly three months after United Nations troops crushed Secessionist Moise Tshombe's regime and placed the province under Premier Cyrille Adoula's central government, peace is far from restored in Katanga. Each guard post that the U.N. hands over to the central regime's Armée Nationale Congolaise seems to produce a little area of anarchy. In recent weeks, trigger-happy A.N.C. soldiers in Elisabethville have killed at least one Katangese civilian...
...Fires on the Plain (1957), which has been made into a grim movie recently released in the U.S., Author Shohei Ooka attempted a serious study of the fanaticism of the Japanese soldier. Its hero Tamura kills senselessly in the last months of the war in the Philippines. But the more revulsion he feels, the more fanatical he becomes. "All voluntary actions were forbidden to me," he reasons. "I, who had voluntarily robbed a human life of the compulsion whereby it lives, had condemned myself to an existence based entirely on compulsion-the compulsion of moving ineluctably toward my own death...