Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brave New Nothing. It was with grim memories of the Depression, and of the "submerged third" of the population which was chronically undernourished before the war, that the first postwar Labor government engineered the most far-reaching social upheaval since the Industrial Revolution. In today's welfare state -or the "opportunity state," as the Tories prefer to call it-physical and material well-being is shared by all segments of society for the first time in British history, blurring the once rigid frontiers between Disraeli's "two nations" of privileged and poor...
...miles east of Saigon, on an off-duty hunting trip. Instead of game, Sergeant Matagulay ran into a band of Communist Viet Cong guerrillas, was held captive until his release last month. Last week, in his first press conference since he was freed, Matagulay depicted the spartan life and grim dedication of the Viet Cong...
...come to New York to stage William Inge's forthcoming Natural Affection. This is the story of an unmarried mother (Kim Stanley) whose son returns fro'm reform school, shows raging jealousy toward her lover, and eventually becomes a murderer. Despite its grim outline, Inge can be counted on to have loaded the whole with rich marblings of mawkishness. Richardson can be counted on to melt the mawkishness away...
After this, the audience knows that nothing painful, nothing honest, nothing real will be inflicted upon it. In Oliver twisted, the Thieves' Kitchen becomes an urban Sherwood Forest, with Robin Hood Fagin teaching his pickpocketeers to rob from the rich and give to the deserving poor-themselves. The grim workhouses, stews and drinking dens of London become playgrounds for boys with a taste for adventure. The biggest laugh of the evening comes when Fagin paternally growls at his charges, "Shut up and drink...
...Taste of Honey. The hit play by Shelagh Delaney, Britain's angry young ma'am, has been made into the year's best British movie: a grim-gay, witty-gritty tale about a mill-town miss (Rita Tushingham) who grows up the hard...