Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what has been denied the human heart in Couples has been lavished freely on the appearances of things. The book contains the most subtle renderings of the face of nature, the bleak marshes near Foxy's house, the constantly changing face of the ocean...
...many U.S. space scientists. Hamstrung by cutbacks in appropriations, laboratories and space installations across the country have been laying off technicians, engineers and scientists by the thousands. More important, they have been forced to suspend most planning for interplanetary missions. "There is no question that things will be bleak in the '70s," says NASA consultant and former Deputy Administrator Robert C. Seamans Jr. "The question is how bleak...
Despite the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, the cities have almost nothing to go on in their fight against urban poverty and racial discrimination. Anti-poverty funds have been cut, summer work programs are looking very thin, the whole employment picture for Negroes is as bleak as ever and the same is true of new and rehabilitated housing. Ghetto schools are the same old schools...
Which is not at all to say the picture for Harvard lightweight crew this year is completely bleak. Anderson says that his squad has "very good potential for the end of the season." The crew will undergo intensive preparation during the next two weeks, and prospects are that it can shape into a formidable contender in the East...
Though he has a reality that belongs to him alone, Bora is manifestly meant to be a symbol as well. In his final contribution to the film's bleak catalogue of miseries, he stabs his rival and flees the town. As he disappears, he be comes all gypsies-the Indians of rope who can neither escape nor brace the present and whose future is foreshadowed with doom...