Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their promoters, andtackedanother song to the end of their double album without listing it on the jacket, or telling the guys who wrote the ad copy. That's the keynote for the music on this album: it presents a world gone slightly askew and takes a sort of grim joy in pounding the disturbing discord home...
...HAVEN, Conn.--The tenor of Harvard's game proved as grim as the architecture of Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium last night, as the Bulldogs turned a tight first half into a rout, defeating the Crimson, 86-75, here in New Haven...
...onto the tarmac of Salisbury airport. The bulky, silver-haired black nationalist leader had returned to Rhodesia, after more than three years of exile, to begin campaigning for next month's independence elections. Because of a flurry of death threats, security at the airport was extremely heavy: grim reminders of lingering white bitterness over Nkomo's role in Rhodesia's bloody seven-year guerrilla war. At nearby Highfield Stadium, however, some 150,000 shouting, ululating African supporters gave a tumultuous welcome to the man they call "Zimbabwe's Savior...
...called. Constitutional monarchy would replace aristocratic absolutism ... Science would replace religion. Those of German nationality would serve as tutor and teacher to bring up the subject peoples, rather than keep them ignorant bondsmen as the feudals had done." Unlike their counterparts in Victorian England, though, these reformers were not grim. They were as bewitched as the rest of the world by Viennese high culture, the sheer sensuous pleasures of concert hall and opera house. They became crusading dilettantes, promising themselves a secular paradise, "Strong Through Law and Peace" and "Embellished Through...
Washington's worries are shared by the Pakistan government, which nonetheless prepared to accept the offers of American help with something less than full enthusiasm. A grim editorial in the Pakistan Times charged the U.S. with having adopted a "hostile tone" toward Islamabad and being blind to "the danger posed to Pakistan" by the original Marxist coup in Afghanistan in 1978. It was, said the editorial, "amazing that the event was lost on Washington and London." But in a certain teeth-gritting spirit, the editorial concluded: "Pakistan must accept the offer of military aid from the United States...