Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this does not by any means imply that Moore's stories are grim tragedies or soggy domestic confessionals, however much her plots be the stuff of such woeful fiction. What makes this remarkably self-assured first collection so interesting is the tough bitingly funny humor of the narrative voice. the protagonists, with the exception of the child narrator of The Kid's Guide to Divorce," are all young, college-educated. But this is a protective device, as the husband of the protagonist in another story. "To Fill" says "Everything's a joke. You're always flip-flopping words, only listening...
...Harvard women simply overwhelmed the weaker Northeastern squad. Jane Grim, Janet Judge, and Mimi Sheller swept the triple jump. Theresa Moore, Dele Fayemi, and Carol Kirton took the top three sports in the 100-yd. dash when the lone Huskie entrant false started...
...encounter this problem in talking about South Africa. We report the grim facts about the apartheid state, the last government in the world to enforce racial supremacy and domination through law. If you are born Black, you have a one in four chance of dying before the age of one and an even chance of living to the age of five, but you have no chance of voting because it is against the law. You cannot own land or travel freely or live with your family except at the government's discretion...
Surely, Black South Africans have suffered enough oppression While the prospects for peaceful democratic change in South Africa look particularly grim in the aftermath of recent violence there it is necessary to remember Steve Biko's word. "Even if the prospects for peaceful change are extremely slim, they are worth investigating...
...Cothen. But someone standing in the run-down Cothen castle courtyard--part of the building is used as a state prison today--would be hard pressed to imagine how Bach could have been inspired by his surroundings. The Saxon plain is as flat as Kansas, its tiny villages grim studies in brown and gray; the ferocious reforming spirits of Lutheranism and Communism have done their work well. Similarly, it is hard to reconcile Luther's tiny deathbed in Eisleben with our outsize sense of the man's historical stature and accomplishments. And only in Germany would there be a chart...