Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience for modernist writing. But it was an audience chiefly of fiction readers. Fiction had claimed "real life," and in 1910 poetry was subsisting, for the most part, on vague appeals to nature and to God. Though from 1897 on, Edwin Arlington Robinson had been writing his grim, intelligent poetry of American failures (Miniver Cheevy among them), he was not a popular American poet: Joyce Kilmer and Edgar Guest were the poets who sold...
There are startling similarities with the previous cases: the kid in Pearl tortured animals too and, like Kinkel, went through a "Goth" phase, dressing in black and voicing grim imaginings; Kinkel had a fascination with guns to match that of the Jonesboro boys; like the young man charged in West Paducah, he seemed possessed of a death wish. When he was finally wrestled to the ground and disarmed, Kinkel pleaded with his captors, "Just shoot me." But if these parallels are merely coincidental, others are not easily dismissed. Once again the murderous drama features a troubled youth and a community...
...book begins with a tragedy--the death of three of Holbrooke's colleagues when their vehicle fell into a ravine on Mount Igman on the team's first visit to Sarajevo. This traumatic event permeates the narrative--a grim reminder that great enterprises may demand great sacrifices. Holbrooke's frantic pre-Dayton shuttle often took him to three countries in a single day. Once all the parties had been safely corralled in Ohio, he unleashed a classic 21-day exercise in lock-up, great-power diplomacy. The outcome of this exhausting and often acrimonious marathon was in doubt until literally...
...offered a grim characterization of the situation in Israel today, blaming both the current Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and American diplomats for the stalled progress of peace negotiations since the 1993 Oslo Accords...
...That's a grim warning for people in many of the world's flash points, from Cambodia to Mexico to Bosnia. But it is also a call for increased vigilance from the international community and a move away from the widely held view that tribalism is unavoidable. Visiting Rwanda last month, President Clinton acknowledged that the 1994 bloodletting was "certainly not the result of ancient tribal struggles...All over the world, there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed...