Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is a bleak forecast for SNCC. Carmichael has already opted out of running again for chairman, and no one anywhere in the present eschalons seems ready, willing or able to fill the formidable void this month's elections will bring. As SNCC's resources and manpower dwindle, the sounds of a new student activism are just beginning on hitherto quiet Southern Negro campuses. It was this kind of activism that SNCC spent the last year trying to capture and make its own. For SNCC this activism may have some too late. If so, this month's elections...
...equality. Seldom, by contrast, are they apprised of the social and economic lag that afflicts the nation's second largest disadvantaged minority: the 4,677,000 Mexican-Americans of the U.S. Southwest-proud, poor and increasingly protest-minded. From the Rio Grande to the Russian River, in the bleak barrios of East Los Angeles and the tar-paper colonias of the San Joaquin Valley, the Mexican minority is struggling to articulate its anger...
...household appliances that set them free to ponder Womanhood. What they wanted to hear was how tough it all had been, and no one told them more relentlessly than Author Buck, who, in her 32 novels and obsessive memoir writing, has ennobled the distaff drudge while painting a bleak picture of men and marriage...
...central flaw of Death of the President is that it forces the reader to become preoccupied with the numerous slip-ups in the author's style and manner of writing "history." Manchester meant his volume to complement the visual record of the four bleak days in November, 1963. Yet his shoddy craftsmanship and endless supply of irrelevant detail have dulled the effect with which he wanted to touch us deeply. In the end, the book negates the event...
...Despite bleak scores, the year -- a building one -- has not been all despair...