Word: grimness
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Choudary and Yahya belong to the extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, and though they speak for only a tiny fraction of Britain's 2 million Muslims, their views received grim publicity last week with the news that three British-born Muslims had been killed in Kabul--allegedly in a U.S. bombing raid on a Taliban compound--after volunteering for the jihad...
...late July 1961, President Kennedy, just back from the grim Vienna summit with Khrushchev, asked me to dinner in Palm Beach. After daiquiris and Frank Sinatra records on the patio, his three guests and I gathered around the table for fish-in-a-bag, a White House recipe. Between lusty bites, Kennedy told the story of Khrushchev's anger over West Berlin, the island of freedom in the Soviet empire's East Germany. "We have a bustling communist enclave just four blocks from the White House," I noted, meaning the Soviet embassy. Kennedy paused, fork between plate and mouth...
...grim, uncertain weeks following Sept. 11, some New Yorkers wondered when they would ever have cause to party again. At the Robin Hood Foundation, executive director David Saltzman and his board organized both the party and the cause. The Oct. 20 Concert for New York City brought together an A list of performers that ran from Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger to Melissa Etheridge. In ticket sales alone, the televised concert generated $14 million; pledges from viewers are still being calculated...
...then proceeds to discuss the works of Menander, Plautus, Terence, Machiavelli (yes, he of the famous political treatise) Marlowe, Shakespeare, Moliere, Ben Jonson and Shaw, along with many others. Even this light-hearted romp, though, must end. As the title of the book suggests, the book concludes on a grim note, charging that comedy perished with the advent of what Segal calls the Theater of the Absurd, which was characterized by the decay of language and theme of the meaninglessness of existence. Most of the final chapter is devoted to an analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting...
...routine spring drill, Leiszler tore the ACL in his left knee. As Butler’s story demonstrated, normally such an injury is a temporary setback and only requires surgery and recuperation. But for Leiszler, it was his third such injury in three years. The doctors delivered a grim prognosis and chances are slim that Leiszler will ever play football again...