Word: bleak
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...report will recommend, but it is sure to call for big increases in federal expenditures on libraries. And Johnson gave this kind of expenditure a distant second priority in his Education message to Congress, so the immediate prospects for pushing federal construction of massive new research centers look thoroughly bleak...
...future for men over 20 looks bleak. Under law, the Defense Department can institute either of the two plans without Presidential action. A very high Pentagon official said last week that he will make no changes because the plans are "administratively unfeasible." Senator Edward M.Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) will this week propose a comprehensive revision of the draft law, including random selection. Hershey said last week that be could have a lottery working three months after Congress had approved it. The man who could this year push through Kennedy's bill is the same man who killed random selection last...
...play is immensely theatrical, sensuous and intellectual. Apart from being Pirandello's greatest work, Henry IV is a fascinating precursor of the entire theater of the absurd-the anguish over existence in Sartre and Camus, the guerrilla warfare against ossified language and the mass mind in lonesco, the bleak, alienated vision of Beckett, the sense of man eternally acting a role in Genet, and the use of the stage as a self-contained universe in Pinter. In a towering display of the actor's craft, Kenneth Haigh confers unbrooked, unhinged regality on the title character while coiling...
ONLY a part of the HPC's immediate future appears bleak. The saturation effect which may block further changes by the CEP-Faculty route does not apply to the HPC audits which grow steadily more prestigious and powerful. The first of the great audits brought major changes in the Government Department. One this fall led the History Department to junk junior generals Monday. Three minor changes the HPC recommended in History and Literature drew an immediate response, and the HPC Arch Sci committee, working with like-minded Faculty members, was able to write the prospectus for a new department...
Marvin Lazerson, the Winthrop House tutor who organized the summer program, offered a bleak evaluation of his project's results. "It suffered from all of the flaws of compensatory education," he said in an interview yesterday...