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...stark truth," Fisher said in his letter of resignation, "is that not many undergraduates trust the Young Republican Club any more. We have been too obvious in our attempts to be subtle. We have not been honest with our fellow students; we have not been honest with ourselves...
...TIME'S ENTHUSIASM HAS RUN TOO FAR. FORECAST OF MALTHUS IS STARK REALITY FOR AT LEAST HALF OF THE WORLD POPULATION. OBSTACLES TO GREATER PRODUCTION ARE NO LESS REAL BECAUSE THEY ARE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RATHER THAN TECHNICAL. HOW IS THE APPLIED SCIENCE ESSENTIAL TO GREATER OUTPUT TO BE CONVEYED TO A BILLION ILLITERATES...
Wonder-Boy Welles has an imaginative way with a camera. His stark and gloomy settings create a fine mood for tragedy. The 11th Century Scotland of this movie is a rough, barbaric country with a castle jutting out of the sharp rock; hard-eyed horsemen gallop like wild west villains across the foggy landscape; the wide palace courtyard is full of mud puddles and pigs. Welles has thus succeeded in surrounding the plot with an atmosphere that makes all the crude violence believable; photographically, this mood is sustained. Dramatically, it is often violated, both by transpositions of text...
...word from the mountains was nike -victory. The Grammos battle was officially over. Clambering up the stark, grey slope of Grammos' highest peak, weary, tattered Greek soldiers unfurled the blue and white national flag. Some crossed themselves gratefully; others wept...
...world has been through a period of hysterical excitements and stark realism," announced Musicomedy Dancer Ray Bolger, as quoted by rococo Litterateur Lucius Beebe. "Now it seems only natural that people should want a contrast to modernity and hysteria, and the placidity and ordered mannerisms of Victorianism supply that contrast...