Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bleak Notations. The hypocrisy of the code of socialist realism is equally repellent to Yesenin-Volpin. His Russia is one of pain ("The only beauty that I know"), drugs, suffering, alcoholism, prison; many of the poems in The Leaf of Spring (Praeger; $3) bear such bleak notations as Lubyanka, Karaganda and Prison of Chernovtsy-the jails, mental institutions and concentration camps where Yesenin-Volpin has spent most of his adult life...
...welcome Mrs. Jacobs' arguments with open arms. How 1 would love to once again dodge people, taxis and cigarette butts for a "corn beef on rye" in a cozy basement delicatessen. Until such a time I only pray that the city planners are sentenced to live in the bleak "hells" called housing projects...
...failings. But Americans are curiously oblivious to some of their society's achievements. It took foreign visitors to point out how remarkable it was that in the U.S. automobile workers drive to work in their own cars. Similarly unnoticed is another achievement of U.S. culture. The orphanage, that bleak institution that has outraged human sensibilities from the time of Oliver Twist to Little Annie Roomy, has all but vanished...
Four experts on world affairs presented a bleak picture of the prospects and future of the United Nations at the first Winthrop House Forum last night...
...banner lettered "BLEAK HOUSE" that flapped across Moors Hall last week, like the "HOWARD JOHNSON'S" that adorned Barnard, proclaimed a real discontent. The anguished cry, "But we just want to be left alone," which greeted evening programs in some halls last spring, has now risen against the Houses. Even granting that the painting of doors and cupolas was not a master stroke of artistic taste, there are more fundamental reasons for the tide of opposition...