Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps Abbott picked the wrong play, or at least the wrong author: O'Casey's prickly-pear mixture of the gay and the grim, the heartless and the sentimental is often awkward enough. But, then, Richard III is no pip and Abbott did well enough by that, and with, generally speaking, a much less effective cast. Lynn Milgrim, the Juno of this Juno, for instance, could not be better: business-like in her work, gruff in her joy, searing in her grief. Patricia Fay is an honest, spirited Mary Boyle, at once demure and uncompromising. Sheila Forde who appears briefly...
...dawn rose over Paris early one morning last week, a volley of rifle shots echoed through dank, grim Ivry Fort. Dead before the firing squad sank ex-Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, convicted ringleader of last summer's abortive attempt to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart as he was motoring to his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises.* Though De Gaulle spared two other plotters, he presumably ordered the execution of Bastien-Thiry to discourage other terrorists from further assassination efforts on behalf of the dread Secret Army Organization...
...miles northeast of Saigon their car ran into a string of autos stalled in the center of the road. Around them swarmed some 20 grim-faced Vietnamese wearing rubber sandals, tree branches thrust into their belts for camouflage, and light field packs over their black peasant garb. "We were ordered out of the car," said Mrs. Jacobsen, "but we weren't frightened. We thought we would be on our way in a few minutes." This was not to be, for the hapless missionary families were caught in a roadblock of the Communist Viet Cong...
...situation seemed grim. For one thing, it was raining. For another, only three of the 80 persons expected to march on Washington from Baltimore showed up. But the picketers hoisted their signs high and circled the White House for seven hours straight. "Mrs. Kennedy," pleaded the placards, "Won't You Please Clothe Your Horse for Decency?" SINA was on the march...
...Naples, nobody dreams of rebellion. When they round up the labor battalions, everybody thinks only of escape. But when they cannot escape, the men of Naples instantly decide that they would rather fight than work: the lazy lazzaroni rise to defend their ancient tradition of indolence. On Sept. 27, grim little groups break out their hidden weapons and converge on German units. A substantial enemy force is besieged in a soccer stadium. German columns rush to its relief. But the vermin of the Vomero pile barricades in their wretched alleys, volley grenades from the rooftops, take potshots from parked cars...