Word: bleakest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lewis used to research a novel: by filling a trunk not only with his own notes but also with every newspaper or magazine clipping that might some day serve to make a point. Many of his statistics come from Government reports, and he naturally leans most heavily on the bleakest. Still, some of the citations are deeply disturbing: children under 18 compose 42% of America's poor; the average Negro who finishes high school has a mathematical ability below eighth-grade level and a reading ability not much higher; the President's Council of Economic Advisors estimates that...
Symbol of Futility. Gary Wilson's upset and anger and depression sum up the reaction of some 1,657,300 men in the Class of '66 as they face their No. 1 nemesis: Conscription '66. Not since Korea's bleakest days has the draft loomed quite so doomful in the eyes of high school and college graduates. Induction quotas are up threefold over last year; 319,887 men have been called in the past eleven months, another 150,000 are expected to go in the next year. The pool of single 26-, 25-and 24-year...
...Duck began its bold sniping in 1915, during some of the bleakest days of World War I, when its dry wit turned out to be just what was needed to combat wartime hysteria. At the time, the French press was frantically reporting every defeat as a glorious victory. The Duck did not set out to correct these inaccuracies. Instead, it claimed the biggest victories of all, until it began to make all war reporting look ridiculous. On one occasion, when the press was clucking in astonishment over a German submarine that had traveled as far as the U.S. coast...
...burst of enthusiasm revives the Gen Ed program, much of the credit will rightly be given to the reforms voted by the Faculty and to the new Gen Ed Committee. But undergraduates should be grateful to John Finley, who took it upon himself in the bleakest of years to remind his colleagues that Harvard owes its students more than a specialist's education...
...unmixed boon of Mayor Robert Wagner's blessing. Yet Beame, as a candidate for mayor of New York, could almost have been invented by a campaign manager. Born in London, in the course of his poor Jewish parents' emigration from Warsaw, he grew up on the bleakest Lower East Side, earned his tuition through the College of the City of New York and plunged into Brooklyn ward politics, his entree to a 20-year city hall career. A canny, candid financial expert, Beame spoke with authority in condemning longtime Boss Bob Wagner's feckless financing practices, thus...