Word: bleak
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...resides in northern California—designs a utopian master plan from afar, instead of clearly delineating the practical steps toward progress that Latin America so desperately needs. The theoretical nature of his proposals implies a lack of urgency that contrasts sharply with the book’s bleak depiction of the continent’s health...
...nowhere else, the bond between the musicians is evident in their playing, and as they launched into the bleak but gorgeous “Four Last Songs” by Strauss with Lucy Shelton singing soprano, the audience could only look on with admiration. The music, for all its complexities, sounded deceptively effortless...
Hackamore (Daniel R. Pecci ’08-’09) and Raoul (Jugo Kapetanovic ’07) lead a bleak existence: they live in a sparsely appointed bunker, into which Hackamore permits no sunlight, and their only diversions from the monotony of exile are Hackamore’s intermittent medical and psychological crises...
Belying the band’s Harvard roots, as an album A + P feels like an application supplement. Wilkis and Kennedy are clearly eager to show their range, from silly to bleak, up-tempo to slow jam, distortion-heavy to crystal clear. They can do three-chord blues (“The Optimist”). They can play with time signatures (“little gigi”). They can be quasi-political (“America”). The rookie nature of the album is further evinced by its acoustics; lamentably, you can often hear just how small their...
...pomp. On crisp autumn Saturdays, tourists flock to the vast greensward known as the Plain to watch the corps of cadets parade by in their gray swallowtail coats adorned with gold braid. The essential West Point, however, is never on public display. It is hidden behind stone battlements, in bleak inner courtyards of black asphalt. In these forbidding surroundings, the rite of passage into the Long Gray Line begins every July with a seven-week ordeal that is officially labeled Cadet Basic Training but is better known as Beast Barracks. Plebes are weaned from teen culture (TVs are banned from...