Word: bleak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope. In recent years, God has seemed to many as dim as the winter-solstice sun on the horizon. It has been a December of religion. Now, as the days grow longer into the new decade, believers and those who would like to believe are hoping that the long, bleak month is over...
...Aphra probably succeeds in showing at least an aspect of "female consciousness," but the picture it gives is somewhat bleak, since creativity is swamped by dogma, or self-pity, or trivialny...
...expected to rise to about 41%. By Okun's reckoning, corporate profits before taxes will decline 5% or 10%, but if Congress reduces taxes as expected (see THE NATION), the decline in net profits will be only 2% to 4%. That is not quite as bleak a picture as some Wall Streeters have been expecting. Even so, the continuing combination of inflation and slow growth gives investors little pre-Christmas economic news to rest them merry...
Cornell has finished 0-5 in the Ivy League the past two years and this season looks just as bleak. The Big Red lost six starters through graduation, including number one man, Bill St. John, once rated sixth in the nation. Without St. John Cornell is in a "rebuilding year...
...them into pure design, and translating design into motion. In another sequence, three dancers in what look like stylized gas masks stand bound together by a length of sheet. Sounds of traffic and drilling blur into an oppressive roar as the dancers writhe against their bondage; and against the bleak gray and black patterns projected behind them and onto the moving drapery. At first we perceive the slide-patterns as abstract, then as endless wooden coffins; only near the end do we realize that the photographs are close-ups of a sky-scraper facade...