Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rice bowl, a wedge-shaped section of the Mekong Delta from Saigon south, where one-third of the population is concentrated and the Viet Cong is strongest. Another decision: to revise the government's strategichamlet program. All too often in the past, reluctant peasants were herded into bleak "fortified" villages that were in fact insufficiently protected because they were too hastily built. Meanwhile the Red guerrillas, who were supposed to be starving in the no man's land outside the hamlets, managed to live well enough off the land. Henceforth, the plan is to see that all existing...
Actually it was a fast not a feast that brought Gassman, Novelist Carlo (Christ Stopped at Eboli) Levi, poets, folk singers and droves of journalists to the bleak little mountain town south of Palermo. Ever since 1929, when a visiting Fascist minister promised that the government would build a dam near by, Roccamenensi have eagerly looked forward to the day when they would be able to irrigate their parched fields and perhaps even stanch the northward exodus of hungry peasants that has emptied whole villages in the area. In 1952 the government finally earmarked $12.8 million for the project...
...bleak and repellent egotism of the Auchincloss characters can only be based on the primitive assumptions about human nature that are made in a court of law, where it is weirdly believed that intricate psychological matters may be accounted for in answers to questions asked by a total stranger. It may be sound law, but it is fictional malpractice. However, Louis Auchincloss may be profitably read for a glimpse of law's expensive mystery. It is seldom that the layman gets a chance to improve his knowledge of legal matters for as little...
...York had twelve daily newspapers of general circulation in 1930; now it has six. Despite the rising number of surburban newspapers, the trend toward one-newspaper towns is clear and dangerous. The economics of journalism being what they are, the future looks bleak. Ask not for whom the Mirror folds; it folds for thee...
...UNMENTIONABLE NECHAEV, by Michael Prawdin. The story of the youthful fanatic who became the model for the nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and who devised the bleak, dehumanized code of conspiracy and terror that became the model for Lenin's Bolsheviks...