Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BILLY LIAR. The far-out fantasies of a young clerk (Tom Courtenay) delightfully transform one of those bleak English cities into a non-U Utopia...
...Bleak & Grim." Author Harrington has not been consulted, but it is clear that his book contributed to Johnson's new drive. Born into relative comfort in St. Louis (his father was a patent attorney), Harrington went to Holy Cross
...Norman Thomas Socialist who views U.S. society from "the most pessimistic point of view" and whose interpretation is "bleak and grim." He admits that his "moral point of departure is a sense of outrage." His book is barbed with generalizations about "the strangest poor in the history of mankind." It suffers from poorly drawn examples that often fail to punctuate his points. It jumps with startling hyperbole and flaccid statistics; he says, for example, that there are some 50 million poor in the U.S.,* but admits this may be an exaggeration. Yet when he writes of the poor...
Even if the Senate does approve it, the measure faces a bleak future in the House, where it would have to win the approval or at least the consent of Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.). Mills has traditionally opposed similar bills, and the House in general lacks enthusiasm for any fiscal measure initiated in the Senate...
...playwright's bleak study of mankind may be an allegory subject to highly colorful interpretations, it may only be an exercise in ambiguity. The movie falters, too, because the flaws of filmed theater become obvious when ever Director Clive Donner and Scenarist Pinter try most earnestly to "open up" the play in cinema terms. A room sealed against the real and imagined terrors of the outside world is the natural hell of Pinter's characters, and a legitimate theater is an intimate place to share them. To set them roaming into the street or off to a neighborhood...