Word: bleakfully
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...showers, periods of silence, and exacting physical trials to harden bodies and toughen minds in the struggle for survival during perilous times. Hahn founded his first school in 1920 at Germany's Salem Castle. When the Nazis forced him to flee 13 years later, he went to the bleak northeast coast of Scotland and started the Gordonstoun School, where Britain's Princes Philip, Charles and Andrew, along with laborers' sons, submitted to Hahn's austere regimen. In 1941 Hahn went to Wales to help set up the first Outward Bound School, where merchant seamen were taught...
...assembly plants for more than five weeks, from the day before Thanksgiving until Jan. 6. Only its plant in St. Louis will produce cars. The move, which came as no surprise in view of Chrysler's 120-day inventory of unsold cars, means layoffs and bleak Christmases for 64,200 workers. White-collar workers also face the ax; fully 20,000 will be temporarily dropped at Chrysler. All company officers, from the vice-presidential level up to and including Chairman Townsend, will take December pay cuts. An angry Douglas Fraser, chief of the U.A.W.'s Chrysler Department, blamed...
...obvious comparison is Bleak House, which so sharply used law courts as a metaphor for 19th century England. But Snow is closer to Trollope (whose biography he is now writing) than to Dickens. For he is finally interested in showing how the system works, rather than in asking why or making a fuss about it. His wariness makes for low-level emotions. What Critic V.S. Pritchett said of Trollope could be said of Snow: "Reading him is like walking down endless corridors of carpet...
...stretch of the imagination will the U.S. Senate Chamber on Jan. 20, 1975, look the way it did on Jan. 5, 1937, when a bleak band of 16 Republicans assembled to face a phalanx of 76 Democrats on the other side of the aisle. But the Democrats did reasonably well in last week's elections: they scored a net gain of at least three seats, thereby increasing their strength in the Senate to 61 (with 38 for the Republicans and one contest still in doubt). More important, perhaps, they elected a particularly impressive freshman class. Among the more promising...
...Phil is bad taste, but it, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. More than likely, the play and Joseph Papp are being lambasted for presenting subjects that audiences deeply dread facing: the corruption of the flesh, the death of love, and growing old in bleak utter loneliness. There may be too little craft in Mert and Phil, but there is undeniable courage...