Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon learned that dedication was not enough. Mainland health officials paid L'Haridon only 23,000 francs ($65) a month; the islanders gave him an unheated stone house furnished only with a single candle and a portrait of Louis Pasteur and, beyond that, little but sullen acceptance. "In the beginning," says L'Haridon, "it was like camping. I like camping, but how could I work as a doctor?" As the weeks wore on, the young doctor was appalled by his task. The islanders refused to pay bills or take orders. Some 300 Senans were seriously ill with bronchitis...
...most remarkable pictures in this series is that of the little girl dancing to the organ grinder's tune. Atget has caught a mood that is beautiful and profound. The beatific smile of youth contrasts with sullen resolution of old age. In the portraits of the Ragpicker, Flowerman and Prostitute, Atget posed his subjects. At other times he caught people when they were so absorbed as to be motionless. But in this as in other respects Atget was a deliberate primitive. The technique was not without hazard. In one picture, a view along the Seine, exposed for the usual twenty...
...night, in 21 U.S. cities and towns where Westinghouse has plants, the same sullen violence or threat of it darkened factories, stultified business, saddened homes, and all too often brought ambulances clanging through the streets. In a final, convulsive effort to end the strife, the mayors (or their representatives) of 15 cities with struck plants gathered in Pittsburgh one morning to propose a solution. But their efforts proved as futile as the efforts of many before them, including ten Senators, three governors, a handful of clergymen, and the full force of the Federal Mediation Service. Said Secretary of Labor James...
...Sullen Suitors. Out of the wreckage, the rightist forces of Faure and Pinay, from their position of slight numerical superiority, made the first gesture towards putting things back together again. Between the two center groups, said Faure, "there is no real opposition on the big problems." His proposition: "a temporary union" of left-and right-wing moderates. The right-wingers let it be known that Mendès was anathema to them, but hinted that they might accept a Socialist like Mollet or Christian Pineau for Premier...
With two weeks to go before the Assembly convenes, the sullen suitors were maneuvering to secure the best possible terms for whatever marriage they could make. They may succeed in making a go of things for a while; somebody had better, for problems press-chief among them the growing anarchy in Algeria. If France's governing center cannot get together and stay together, there are two legal ways out of such a marriage. A future Premier can dissolve the Parliament and call for new elections, as Faure did-but not until the Assembly has sat for 18 months...