Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blasting power of a Star Wars spaceship, and it is fun to see the future zinging and skittering through our own airspace. Eastwood's laconic professionalism plays off amusingly against the high-tech complexity of his flying machine. And its cruelly trim design plays off handsomely against the bleak beauty of the arctic cloudscapes, icescapes and oceanscapes, where a refueling rendezvous with a submarine must be kept if a final, final escape is to be made. In these concluding passages, John Dykstra's special effects help to turn Firefox into a fantastic voyage through a kind of boyish...
After its bleak, interminable passage, Watergate seemed to issue forth into the sunburst of a civics lesson. But what exactly was the content of the lesson? If Watergate was a morality play the question, then as now, was what moral to draw from it The drama transfixed Americans. Mostly, it bewildered foreigners. Moscow believed it was a trick to destroy detente. The rest of the world had difficulty grasping what all of the agony was about. Foreigners tended to watch the spectacle in the way that an agnostic beholds a believer who is suffering a bout of spiritual anguish...
...would seem to borrow most from the middle of Harvard-the placid, academic, somewhat boring postwar years. But our complacency is not the same, stemming from a bleak and not a sunny view of what lies ahead. Not many in the Class of '82 plan to burn around next year, not many are joining the Peace Corps. A job is a job, and not to be sneered at. Less stock is put on accomplishment, and more on getting ahead and getting by. Exuberance, energy, enthusiasm-those words described the Harvard of 1952 or 1962 much better than the Harvard...
...were no more than rutted tracks toward the Falklands capital of Port Stanley, 50 miles away. Their aim: to launch an attack on some 7,500 troops dug in around the settlement, the bulk of the force that precipitated the South Atlantic crisis with their own invasion of the bleak islands on April...
Although Butterfield's vision of China is bleak, he never degenerates into spite. The approach is factual and dispassionate, the work detailed and well-documented. Butterfield's conclusions are not the result of one or two conversations, but of dozens of interviews, penetrating observations, and a deep understanding of Chinese traditions. He compiles an impressive array of contacts and uses them well, giving us not a blind and hateful rejection of Chinese communism, but a precise analysis of its problems...