Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene is from Seduced and Abandoned, the uproarious and poignant film satire on Sicily's exalted, exasperating code of honor. Pretty Maria Furnari, 19, might have been the heroine of that movie. She lived a secluded life in Piazza Armerina, a town of 28,000 set in the bleak, sun-baked hills of central Sicily. At home, Maria was so strictly supervised that she could not even go to church alone. But each weekday, Maria traveled 40 miles to and from the University of Catania, where she was working toward a teaching degree. Last spring Maria entered a geography...
...state's fiscal future is bleak if present economic policies are continued, a comprehensive survey by Boston College economists has demonstrated. Simply to retain present industry, Massachusetts must cut property taxes, the chief source of state revenue, by at least $3 million in the next decade. Yet, to finance projected state-wide educational and welfare needs, the government must gather at least $150 million in new revenue. If these funds are not found, the General Fund deficit will increase and the cities and towns, many already operating on dangerously unbalanced budgets, will near bankruptcy...
...great majority of Harvard men and women must see the indisputable advantages of comradeship in intellect. No more will they shy away from the dank, depressing, surrealistically bleak landscape of Lamont (and Radcliffe Library in its sexless hours). No more will they set up shop to study, only to fall asleep with stunning promptitude...
...know how long a novel can be until you've read Bleak House; this and other epics of the "sceptered isle" from the bonecrushing backbone of Eng 105, "Introduction to the English Novel." Masochists shouldn't miss Gov 108, "Legal Theory...
Both Feisal and Nasser now knew that military victory was probably impossible in the bleak, strife-torn land where some 40,000 Egyptian troops have been propping up a wobbly republican regime against the Saudi-backed royalist tribesmen who are trying to restore the Imam Mohamed el Badr to his throne. The civil war has cost scores of thousands of Yemeni lives as well as an estimated 10,000 Egyptian casualties. It has also put off the day all Arabs dream of when they can turn their united forces against Israel...