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...grim financial picture is responsible for the confusion facing the GSAS committee as it tries, for the third time in three years, to mold a coherent plan for distribution of financial...
...wistful illusion. Much of the nation's population, drawn by both fear and fascination to the unprecedented personal travail of the President and Vice President, had turned its attention inward, where so many neglected problems demanded action. The tidings of Yom Kippur, the Jewish High Holiday, were a grim reminder that the world beyond is part and parcel of America's continuing concerns. Once again the pursuit of peace remained a task of highest priority...
...Auden soon found the crisis theology of Reinhold Niebuhr. It was a grim neo-Calvinism in which God is Wholly Other and man's individual guilt and anxiety can be submerged (if not assuaged) by a crushing awareness of general human depravity and the resultant difficulty in finding grace. In his most famous single work, The Age of Anxiety (for which, in 1948, he became the first foreign-born poet ever to win the Pulitzer Prize), he offered a repetitive, four-character charade running through all the ages and spiritual stages of modern man. Few are charming, none...
...quite a while before the Chilean people get to choose a constitution for themselves. All the evidence last week pointed to a grim fact: civilian-led democratic government in Chile has no priority at all for the junta. The earliest estimate for national elections was in three to five years, and even that was a guess. By the time the polls reopen, Chileans may be too deep into dictatorship to remember the old days of democracy that ended so suddenly two weeks ago in blood and smoke...
...made his duck-footed appearance before the largest crowd ever to witness a tennis match (30,472) as well as a Super Bowl-size TV audience, Riggs was grim, nervous, almost ashen. Billie Jean was stretched taut also, but it was the tension of a superior athlete fully confident of her capabilities...