Word: gritted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That, of course, forms the plot of Funny Girl, how sheer grit is polished into great talent and the price that is paid for that pearl of success. This familiar story failed in Sophie (about Sophie Tucker) and Jennie (about Laurette Taylor), but it is surprisingly successful in Funny Girl. The difference is partly that Barbra Streisand's Fanny Brice is driven by the heat of desire rather than the cold of ambition, has spasms of panic as well as mountains of spunk. The usual standbys are unusually appealing. Kay Medford's stage mother is more loving than...
...months now, San José has known few clear days as eruption after eruption dropped an estimated 50,000 tons of ash on the city. Grit covers floors, seeps through windows and gets into food at mealtime. When they go outside, San José's 230,000 citizens wear goggles, gas masks, pull handkerchiefs over their faces like Hollywood bandits, even cover their heads with paper bags...
...Erhard, whose past humiliations at the hands of Adenauer earned him the scornful nickname Rubber Lion, was being so distant with the press, and was handling importunate visitors with such quiet reserve that he was being called a new name: the Sphinx of Tegernsee. He was even able to grit his teeth and remain silent when Konrad Adenauer outlined for top officials a view of Europe's future that was almost identical with Charles de Gualle's vision of a French-led association of states...
...history department at the University of Chicago, comes amazingly close to getting it all in. He makes the politics of China or the religious maelstroms of India as clear and relevant as the French Revolution or any more standard topic; and he bites down hard on the grit of factual detail with repeated appeals to archaeology, economics, demography, linguistics, engineering, art history...
...rendered descriptions. And nothing provides a better indication of the ultimate aim of his inquiry: transcendence of one's own limitations through familiarity with the entire spectrum of human experience. "Religious rapture, moral enthusiasm, ontological wonder, cosmic emotion, are all unifying states of mind, in which the sand and grit of the self-hood incline to disappear, and tenderness to rule...