Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worked on the project. Rademaekers found the leaders of the peace movements "intelligent, knowledgeable, persuasive and, above all, convinced of the Tightness of their cause." London Correspondent Mary Cronin, who attended a huge anti-nuclear demonstration in Hyde Park, compared "the solemnity, the pervasive anger and anxiety, the grim determination to stop what they see as disaster" with U.S. protests against the Viet Nam War. For Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, the controversy on nuclear defense in West Germany was both ubiquitous and cacophonous: "It swamps the pages of newspapers and washes in huge waves over television," says Flamini...
...Europe's grim recollections of the first half of the 20th century help explain the pessimism inherent in such declarations...
...fore since Brezhnev lured Reagan into a public argument about the feasibility of limited nuclear war. At issue is declaratory nuclear doctrine: the official statements that the superpowers make to define the circumstances in which they might resort to the use of their ultimate weapons. On this particular grim but hypothetical topic, the U.S. is almost sure to continue taking a beating...
...interviews can hardly seem surprising. Where his politics had triumphed, the theories had failed him. For Stockman and the integrity of his vision, a binding faith in one meant giving up on the other. The interviews could only be ironic in the context of Stockman's image as the grim reaper of the New Right. Here was the blooming personification of the ruthlessness of the supply-side economics, questioning their fairness to many of the people they affect; the embodiment of the Reagan administration's unbending determination to steer a steady course, speaking out on his own doubts. David Stockman...
...room is dark, except for the figures dancing on the small screen, setting up, running and hitting over and over and over again. A grim expression on his face, his pencil almost rhythmically tapping on the table. The Man sits and watches. The Man is not happy with what he sees...