Word: bleak
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...performers, from Pons and Pinza to Toscanini and Tebaldi. The show had all the virtues of the duenna -care, good taste, restraint and fondness for her charges -but also the one vice: it was often pretty dull. Producer Henry Jaffe recalls: "We'd put a performer on a bleak stage in front of a dirty curtain and say, 'Perform!' " Perform they did, often superbly, but Bell began to feel its image had become ossified. This season, the program has shucked its shawl and gone off in search of adventure -and in the process become...
...planes, as proved by Israeli photographs, and possibly both. Twenty-four hours later in Cairo, the Arab League's Defense Council called an urgent meeting for this week to discuss the growing tensions. Girding for more trouble, Israel planted mines along its bristling border with Jordan, swept the bleak desert with searchlights, beefed up troop patrols and traded sporadic fire with Jordanian border police...
This year's prospects are especially bleak. Clarkson, tonight's opponent, was number one in the East last year and made it to the finals of the NCAA tournament. St. Lawrence, generally the less feared of the south-of-the-(Canadian)-border duo, looked underrated after walloping two Canadian teams and upsetting Western champion Michigan Tech, 4-1, in early-season games at Canton...
...labor has ample reason for feeling glum. Meany was guilty of understatement when he said that the chances were "pretty dim" to repeal Section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley Act (the right-to-work provision), which triggered a long and bitter filibuster even in the liberal 89th. Equally bleak is labor's chance of getting restrictions on construction-site picketing eased. By contrast, the 90th Congress may prove far more receptive than the 89th to further limitations on strikes-such as airline stoppages-that have national repercussions...
Lord Randolph, a genial wit to his public, was pretty much an ogre to his son. He believed that he had been cursed with a backward boy and treated Winston like a delinquent dunderhead. He hardly condescended to correspond directly with his son, and communicated his bleak Olympian ultimatums on Winston's tardiness, low school marks and other failures, through Lady Randolph. He did not even let little Winny know that he himself had gone to Eton (as, explains Etonian Randolph, had six generations of Churchills), and contemptuously shoved his unsatisfactory son into Harrow...