Word: bleak
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...movie theater. The National Film Board is supplying the theater with documentaries about Canada's modern cities and its showier tourist places (e.g., Banff, Lake Louise, Niagara Falls), all frankly calculated to reassure travelers that the inside of Canada's house is not so forbidding as its bleak front porch...
Hospitals. The hospital outlook is bleak. Many rural areas have none. Mental and TB hospitals are hopelessly overcrowded. Almost as bad, says the commission, is the condition of obsolete hospitals: "It is difficult to practice good medicine in many of these run-down structures, and their weary air is a depressant to both patients and staff." Some should be modernized, others scrapped...
...just stormed into Sicily on the first leg of their march to build an Italian nation. All his life Orlando lived and labored as an Italian Nationalist, long after his kind of nationalism-and Orlando himself-had become an anachronism. He took over as Premier on that bleak October day in 1917 when the Austro-German armies burst through the Alps at Caporetto. The fact that Italy recovered and ended up on the winning side in 1918 earned for Orlando the title, "Premier of Victory." He never forgot...
This week, radio listeners who have been going steady with Amos 'n' Andy for 25 years were still worried by the bleak -but unconfirmed - rumor that Gosden & Correll will retire at the end of this season. But, in any case, Amos 'n' Andy will live on in TV: the TV version (alt. Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.), with Alvin Childress and Spencer Williams in the title roles, is now a CBS package...
After coaching three bleak seasons of Harvard basketball, Norman Shepard is understandably cautious in talking about his team's prospects for this year. And although the varsity turned in some excellent shooting against weak Rhode Island University Saturday in the Blockhouse, caution must indeed be used in judging its chances...