Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey, who cut his political teeth on New Deal oratory in the Depression '30s, sparked like a mountain evangelist to the bleak depression in West Virginia's coal counties. He slashed the Republicans for indifference, flicked Kennedy for his wealth, reminded his listeners that he, too, had been a poor boy. "American politics are far too important to belong to the moneyman." he said on Milton's Main Street. "I want to bring back politics to the people, to Main Street." In Hamlin he rose to a high for hokum: "They...
...information that young Dick won one of his first elections (president of the student body at Whittier College) by campaigning for dances, which had been banned at the Quaker-founded school. The Kornitzer book seems to be about an entirely different man from William Costello's bleak study, The Facts About Nixon (Viking; $3.95), which first appeared in abbreviated form in the New Republic. Reporter Costello shows his bias in every turn of phrase, and the sinister Nixon he presents is no closer to the real...
...Agony. He studied in London, New York and Paris (where he met his wife Julia ), eventually settled in Manhattan. By that time, the Depression had hit. The bleak agony of it made its way onto canvas after canvas: the bloody strikes, the mine disasters, that numbing, job losing moment that Evergood recorded as The Pink Dismissal Slip Evergood himself was a part of the famed "219 Strike," in which 219 artists staged an ill-fated demonstration against being swept from the rolls of the WPA. He was clubed into sensibility, spent the night in a cell ankle-deep in filth...
...enough not to require a medicine cabinet-who comes to share Julian's rustic idyl for a while. When he finds her clasped by a lustful vegetarian, he takes to his bed for several days in disgust, but wakes up to find wild flowers thrusting up through the bleak earth of his gloom; there is money in the mail from an American publisher. At book's end he is planning another poem...
...asked the Appellate Court to reverse the decision. Jack's lawyer, Carson Baker, hinted darkly that Ho gan was pursuing the case "because Mr. Jack ... is black." The suggestion was too much for even the professionally liberal, race-sensitive New York Post. "We venture to guess," said a bleak Post editorial, "that a white Tammany borough president would almost surely have been the subject of a state removal hearing by now if he had admitted as much as Jack. The unhappy fact is that there is an undercurrent of racism in reverse . . ." In the midst of a rising demand...