Word: grimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...tried fictional supports: the triangle, intrusion of job or career, incapacity to keep loving, failure to communicate. Most such books read as if they were inspired by the stale, paid advice of a marriage counselor. In Strangers, Tunisian Novelist Albert Memmi writes with relentless can dor of a far grimmer marital crack-up in a far more ferocious setting than is usually found in the bored, semi-Freudian cold war between American husbands and wives. If Author Memmi's lovers never have a chance, it takes marriage to prove it. If they part in bitterness, they at least spell...
Such a picture of God is suitable only for the grimmer kind of fairy tales and not for adults with freedom to think and read. Anyway, even without the proofs of science, one has to reject the idea of a God who looks like man and acts like a poor specimen of the race out of hand...
...Harvard's Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender, the hold-down headache is "grim, grimmer, grimmest." But he says it with a certain smile. In the past five years, Ivy League colleges have been able to raise their admission standards 50%. Reason: brighter and brighter applicants. Last year two-thirds of Princeton's applicants were deemed perfectly capable of Princeton work. But only one-third could be admitted, and Princeton skimmed the richest cream. Says Director of Admission C. William Edwards: "The bottom one-third of the applicants of ten years ago wouldn't even bother...
...grimmer '30s, dachas were for exclusive colonies of the favored elite-commissars, scientists, writers, composers. But now the government complains of creeping free enterprise, and accuses crooked officials of ignoring zoning regulations to help "speculators" turn Moscow's green environs into building lots...