Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This sensitivity, moreover, comes from a more profound realization about the nature of man--that is, I believe, the universality of sin. Yet--and this is the joy of it--he does not despair of this admittedly grim concept, but rather accepts it with an enthusiastic recklessness. He does not excuse himself from his human burden. His memoirs present several outwardly damning facts about the author. But he faces squarely such problems as occasional reliance on sleeping pills or psychiatrists because, after all, no one can be expected to lead a life of unrelieved virtue. Certainly, the faults...
...British government officially put it. Then came the rioting through Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast and Londonderry as women banged dustbin lids in the early morning darkness and gangs of youthful I.R.A. sympathizers attacked army and police patrols with stones and fire bombs. At week's end the grim cycle began all over again as Patrick O'Hara, 24, became the fourth hunger striker to die. The rioting left one man and a twelve-year-old girl dead-apparently victims of plastic bullets-while six British soldiers were injured. But neither last week's casualties, nor the possibility...
Correspondent Barry Kalb happened to be reading about terrorism in Italy when word reached him at the TIME Rome bureau that Pope John Paul II had been shot in St. Peter's Square. He pieced together the grim sequence of events and then rushed to Gemelli Hospital to pursue reports on the Pope's condition. Says Kalb: "When I had a minute to breathe later that evening, I realized that I had been more saddened than surprised by the fact that someone would shoot the Pope. And that saddened me more than anything else." Rome Bureau Chief Wilton...
...nothing will bring my father back to life: he has been silenced forever. Will Bill Carter and Hgo Vinh Long join me in deploring and mourning his death? Will they also express concern at the possibility that all those who are still in reeducation camps may face the same grim fate as my father? Hue Tam Ho Tal Assistant Professor in Sino-Vietnamese History
...Fifth Amendment allows citizens to remain silent. But it looks bad. Emanations of a man's guilt, as Freud once put it, "ooze from all his pores." Even the hard, grim stonewall of the Nixon White House eventually crumbled. Richard Nixon, in fact, is a fascinating case study in the psychology of confession. The "Papyrus of Nu" from the 18th dynasty of Egypt records what scholars have come to call the negative confessions. Therein the Egyptian advises the gods of all the crimes he has not committed during his life ("I have not polluted myself... I have not carried...