Word: grimmest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes of the world, are more likely to be criminals than crime fighters. Among the original 13 is Tony Mayo, 18, a black who never knew his father, lost his mother when he was still a toddler, was then raised by relatives in one of the grimmest sections in any American city. "I'm nearly a black belt," says Mayo. "I can disarm a man carrying a knife. I've developed a spiritual eye. I can feel you behind me, I can feel your vibes." Arnaldo Salinas, 18, another ghetto child, wants to be an FBI man. "There...
Because Candide is so farcical, (and any show that involves actors in ape suits is by definition a farce), you aren't likely to be emotionally affected by it in any deep way. But in this grimmest of all possible worlds, a fast-paced piece of pure entertainment is always welcome. It beats tending your garden...
...that is much on his mind is by making a series of individual moral choices, based essentially on an instinctive sense of right or wrong. "We have to go at it the hard way, and come to terms with the fact that the universe seems to contain only the grimmest possibilities. We have to develop structures of our own that encourage us to believe that it genuinely pays to make the moral choice just from the pragmatic point of view...
...they had endured all the hardship, but now they see only too clearly that the operators and the rest of the country are beginning to share in their suffering. So hardly a miner seems disposed to give in. The men and women who perform some of life's grimmest labor under ground are not likely to be pushovers up above. "Some of us saw the strike coming a long way off," says Lou Kovach, 50, a miner in Masontown, Pa. "And most of us were ready for a long one. I still bowl and go uptown...
Brando's methodical search was based on the grimmest of calculations: "I'm convinced the world is doomed. The end is near. I wanted a place where my family and I could be self-sufficient and survive." The abysmal state of the human condition is Brando's obsession. "I know I'm a bore on the subject of the American Indian," he said. "But people haven't become emotionally involved in the subject...