Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country, but Georgia also contains semi-progressive Atlanta and black legislators like Julian Bond. South Carolina has Storm Thurmond, Louisiana has Leander Perez, and Arkansas and Tennessee have their residual rednecks. But for over-all misery--that combination of systematic oppression and debilitating poverty that makes black lives bleak--Alabama wins in a walk...
RACHEL, RACHEL. Puzzled by the present, plagued by the past, a 35-year-old schoolteacher struggles to break out of her bleak existence in this muted film di rected by Paul Newman. As Rachel, Joanne Woodward (Mrs. Newman) brings transcendent strength to her role and lifts the film to classic stature...
...Kabul, the capital, or who drives the solid new blacktop highways. From those roads, however, other sights can be seen. Long caravans wind across distant valleys, as they have for centuries past. In the south, high-walled family compounds housing fierce Pathan tribesmen still stud the countryside. In the bleak mud houses of northern villages, young children often go blind weaving and knotting traditional Bukhara rugs. Nomad Kuchis seek fresh pasture land for their camels and fat-tailed sheep on the desolate plateaus, as chill winds whistle down from the snowy summits of the 600-mile-long range...
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. A literary time-machine trip-via short stories and essays-that gives the traveler a look at man's present dilemmas and the bleak Utopias promised for his future...
...Love Yourself" Less fascinating than these witty, horrific, social criticisms-bleak Utopias all-but often more convincing and moving, are Vonnegut's stories on contemporary themes. They concern, among others, a half-Negro war orphan searching for his father, and a dedicated music teacher trying to soften the heart of a hardened juvenile delinquent. These tales forcibly demonstrate humanity at its best-people trying to cope with the painful present instead of escaping into an anesthetized future...