Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mother with Crystal Ball. In 1936, in a bleak stone villa in London's suburban Kingston Hill, Farouk, a tall, trim boy of 16, got a long-distance call from Cairo. It was his mother, Queen Nazli. "My son," she sobbed, "you are King...
...Stokes flew off from Teheran, the farewell was symbolically bleak. Save for the Minister of Roads and Communications, only bureaucratic underlings saw him off. The only official gift was a huge pail of caviar. Students standing by yelled, "Borol Boro...
...escape. But Martin has been to the mainland and has come back to his island with the knowledge "that the more we travel the more rootless we become." Truth in the Night is Michael McLaverty's story of their troubled courtship and tragic marriage, a tale as bleak as the rocky slopes and the grey loughs of its Irish scene, and one as nearly perfect as any ever written of its minor Irish kind...
...critics who disliked his recent London production of Hamlet with a Freudian interpretation (which he kept) and a Vandyke beard (which he shaved off after ten performances), Alec Guinness explained some of his ideas on staging in the Spectator: "The setting, a formal and rather bleak affair, I take full responsibility for. It was partly the result of reaction against permanent, semi-permanent and realistic sets in Shakespeare, and, above all, a stubborn dislike of the rostrum. Rostrums, apart from cluttering up the stage, tend to produce a one-foot-up, one-foot-down sort of acting which I find...
Humbler and more complete than the city ruins is the destruction of the grass-roofed villages. They have vanished-more than 12,000 of them-into heaps of bluish-grey ashes. Bleak stone walls still stand in front of them, and mulberry and acacia bushes, covered with heavy dust...