Word: bleakfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widely quoted report, The Limits to Growth, mankind faces worldwide famine, pollution and fuel shortages within the next century. More recently, less apocalyptic prophets like Economist Robert Heilbroner have taken a dim view of man's future. To British Science Writer Adrian Berry, tomorrow is not all that bleak. In a forthcoming book, The Next Ten Thousand Years (Saturday Review Press/E.P. Button; $8.95), Berry boldly predicts that technology will confound the prophets of doomsday. What is more, he says, mankind will eventually reach out to tap the resources of the entire solar system and, ultimately, the far reaches...
Christmas and Thanksgiving were celebrated, marriage and funeral rites were performed, and cultural traditions were renewed. But it was a bleak existence for the prisoners, many of whom had previously enjoyed middle-class comfort. Professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, were paid $19 a month for serving fellow inmates; laborers received $12 to do menial work. Some residents took up sewing, flower arranging, making jewelry from sea shells-all to ward off the feeling of confinement. It was hardly a Nazi-style concentration camp, but armed guards and barbed wire were continual reminders of freedom denied...
...else could ever devote to them. That is no small part of the reason Wedding in Blood seems so overwrought, without the tension or the wit that marks Chabrol's best work. He adds, almost desperately, an echo of Greek tragedy in the plot's bleak resolution, but this only serves to make the film portentous. It lurches ahead in predictable little bursts of motion, like a trolley on old tracks...
Ironically, to Burgess, who carries high the torch of fiction's modernist tradition, the future of literary studies and serious reading looks bleak. "Nobody reads in the past any more," he grieves. "You can major in literature in America beginning with Hermann Hesse." (Burgess should know. He has spent most of the past five years teaching at Princeton and the City College of New York, though he now intends to devote himself full time to writing.) The author's exuberant pessimism extends to the course of democratic government, especially in his native England. His solution is for England...
...vast parts of the globe are actually doomed to such drastic weather changes, then the outlook is bleak indeed. Political unrest and even civil wars will become more likely as whole countries go hungry. In the past year, discontent spurred by food shortages contributed to the sudden changes of government in Niger and Thailand, and it threatens the reign of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia...