Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With elections only a month away, France's bleak wintry landscape was suddenly abloom with bright billboards last week. The most striking campaign poster was one showing a sturdy tree with a caption calling for CONFIDENCE IN BARRE. The tree referred to a celebrated comparison made by Premier Raymond Barre, who had likened his efforts to boost the French economy to nurturing a tree. "Obstinately but durably, the tree grows little by little," Barre assured French voters. On the other hand, Socialism and Communism blow in like a "typhoon," wreaking havoc in the whole forest...
...bill would "substantially decrease" the number of academic jobs in the country as a whole in the years immediately after its passage. The long-term effect of increasing the teaching life of professors would be more moderate, he said, although "the job picture for PhD's will remain bleak into the indefinite future...
WHAT IS SURPRISING is the amount of very real humor in Survival, if humor can be broadly defined as those things that keep life from becoming too bleak. There are songs (performed by the Jailbird Quartet) and moments of friendship; survival requires emotional as well as physical effort in a place like Soweto. These moments of beauty underline the basic structure of life there: the songs predict the day of liberation, and friendships are based on recognition of a common struggle. But they also keep the play from becoming a simple polemical statement. politics and art usually...
...Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter, now at Manhattan's Public Theater. The setting is a police station during the midnight-to-dawn shift. Two dope addicts, Simon (Laurence Luckinbill) and Jimmy (Alan Rosenberg), who are also homosexuals with bisexual experiences, are pushed into the bleak room in handcuffs. They have robbed a woman of $26. One of them has slit her throat...
Campus ferment reached its climax last spring in widespread leftist-led student protests over bleak job prospects for new graduates and chronically overcrowded classrooms. At Milan University young "proletarian committees" brought teaching to a standstill, destroyed books and scientific instruments. At Bocconi University, a Milan business school, three masked urban guerrillas destroyed the computer center. In Bologna, a 25-year-old medical student was shot dead by police during a youth rampage in a 20-block commercial district near the campus, and his death triggered more bloody riots in Rome...