Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood in Pennsylvania is so bleak that Joe Clark predicts that one more defeat, far from rejuvenating the party, will relegate it to "permanent minority status." He could be right. The Democratic leadership has succeeded so well in stifling young talent that there maybe nobody around capable of picking up the pieces-and that is true not only in Pennsylvania but elsewhere...
With such intellectual cretinism and moral depravity ruling this world, it is a bleak future we face...
THROUGHOUT the summer, prospects have been bleak for civil rights supporters in Congress. Wary Congressmen, watching the swing to the right among the home voters, have lost much of their ardor for further federal civil rights legislation. Those guiding welfare bills through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...
...crime, burning ghettos, disrupted universities and violent demonstrations in downtown streets, law and order is a rallying cry that evokes quieter days. To some, it is also a shorthand message promising repression of the black community. To the Negro, already the most frequent victim of violence, it is a bleak warning that worse times may be coming...
...keep it that way. For instance, the script calls for Porter to kick a cistern, then sit and play it like a Bongo in the second act. Jory has junked that and instead has Jimmy playing a complex jazz solo with plates and glasses on the bleak little tea table, as Alison announces that she's going out with her friend Helena. "That's not a direction," Porter replies in perfect syncopation, "that's an affliction...