Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). In "The Town of No Return," the Avengers set out to discover what evil befell four fellow spooks who vanished without a trace from a bleak coastal village...
...bleak future of China drew comment last week from a distinguished scholar who for five years has been stationed at Mao's doorstep: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer. Retiring from his post last week, the 55-year-old Tokyo-born Harvard professor, who has studied in China and written about the country, took the occasion to offer his own assessment of trends on the mainland...
...years ago last week, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and set the stage for the bloody Suez crisis that rocked the world in November 1956. Thereupon, Israel invaded the bleak, sand-blown Sinai Peninsula, ostensibly to destroy guerrilla bases operating against her borders. Then, speaking loftily of "separating the belligerents" and "protecting" the canal, Britain and France ordered Egypt to surrender its control to them; when Egypt refused, they began bombing Cairo and Port Said. In the end, amid the angry protests of the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles and a rattle of rockets...
...teenager, who drifts from senseless jobs to hopeless dance-hall encounters to empty lectures at home. In the devastating symbolism of Joseph Kilián, by 30-year-old Director Pavel Juráček, the protagonist borrows a cat from a pet shop and is entangled in a bleak, Kafkaesque nightmare while trying to return it. Painting a surprisingly harsh portrait of Communism's common man, Evald Schorm, 34, debunks bureaucracy with unmuffled freedom in his Courage for Every Day. Chosen by a magazine as the exemplar of the socialist ideal, a factory worker stumbles over every slogan...
...these authors' characters are purposely distorted and dematerialized, one cannot identify with them any more than a man can identify with his own X rays. Shakespeare said that all the world's a stage, and he made his stage all the world. With skeletal casts and bare bleak stages, today's thinking playwright invokes the world only as a metaphor of threat and dread...