Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zahle, observers saw little hope for any lasting peace. Said a high-ranking U.N. official: "Everybody believes he is fighting for survival. That, coupled with intense emotionalism and the abundance of weaponry in all hands, tends to make the situation totally uncontrollable." A U.S. State Department expert echoed that bleak assessment: "Lebanon has become a cockpit of warfare, mainly because of the non-Lebanese. We have been in touch with all the parties, but we are very pessimistic...
Lubbock, dry and bleak, is 318 miles from Dallas on the flat cap rock of west Texas. The population is 180,000, and 22,000 are Texas Tech students. John Hinckley Jr. was one of them, a business major, as of September 1973. He never finished, but over the next seven years Hinckley attended classes more than half the time. By 1977 he had dropped business in favor of liberal arts and earned at least a B average-good enough to be on the dean's list. But once away from home, he made not even a token effort...
Cronkite is an old-fashioned newspaperman, a good one and proud of it. He was in the first group of war correspondents to fly a bombing mission over Germany. After the war, he covered Stalin's bleak and hostile Moscow for United Press. Out of his U.P. experience, and his concern that so many millions get their news only from TV, Cronkite tries to see to it that CBS runs more news items, even brief ones, than the other networks. He persists in the mannerisms and discipline of the older medium as if this guarantees his integrity...
...while Godard and his aging enfant terrible cohorts continued their explorations of the bleak and the beleagured, Truffaut continued to see the world placidly, some would say naively, not as an elaborate inhuman maze, but as a series of small victories and small defeats. At this year's New York Film Festival, Godard gave the world his Every Man for Himself, and not very many wanted it. Truffaut gave them The Last Metro, complete with Cartherine Deneuve and Gerald Depardieu, and everyone sighed. In France The Last Metro has been lavishly garnished with awards and is a huge financial success...
There seems now an awakening will to rescue the future from the bleak descending path, the rather mean history of the recent past. Of course, a rhetoric of optimism is standard for a little while just after the presidency changes hands...