Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your doorstep seems barren on Saturday mornings its because the Crimson only publishes five days a weeks during reading period. After finals, during which the Crimson will publish three times a week, the normal schedule will resume...
...spots that perennially win community-service awards. Indeed, it is in some aspects the very model of modern urban decay. Founded in 1906 by Industrialist Elbert H. Gary (who judiciously chose not to live there), it sits like an ash heap in the northwest corner of Indiana, a grimy, barren steel town. The sons and daughters of the Poles and Slovaks and Croats, who for generations have worked the foundries, form a decided white minority. Most of the blacks, who make up the town's majority, are law-abiding citizens, but a few of them have lately terrorized Gary...
Frozen Intellectuals. The intellectual atmosphere in Prague is as barren as are the prospects for Soviet departure. The famous avant-garde Theater Behind the Gates has been closed down, and the political cabarets that flourished in the late 1960s have disappeared. Such well-known Czechoslovak film directors as Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde) and Jan Kadar (The Shop on Main Street) are now working in the West, while others who stayed home are banned from their profession. "The pressures are too great," one Czechoslovak intellectual explained. "It's all right if you are simply an actor, a singer...
...insidious about the enterprise is that the physical authenticity, and the elegiac tone of the music and photography (sepia-tinged by the talented Gordon Wills), persuades people that this is a sincere attempt to recapture history. The case is actually simpler. Once more Hollywood entertainers are projecting their own barren sensibilities on the past...
...statement begins with an attack on President Nixon's environmental record, which it calls "fertile with rhetoric but barren in performance." It charges that the Nixon administration has attempted to weaken proposed legislation, that it has failed to spend millions of dollars appropriated for environmental protection, and that it has failed to enforce existing legislation "energetically or effectively...