Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself, it can take MI multitudinous shapes. Colorless in itself, it can produce iridescences beyond any artist's palette. Soundless and inert in itself, it can in action induce a sense of rushing speed and frenetic energy; in tranquillity, a sense of meditative peace. In the most bleak of concrete jungles, water is a hope and a memory, a green thought in an ungreen shade...
...Their bleak environment nurtures values that are often at radical odds with those of the majority?even the majority of the poor. Thus the underclass minority produces a highly disproportionate number of the nation's juvenile delinquents, school dropouts, drug addicts and welfare mothers, and much of the adult crime, family disruption, urban decay and demand for social expenditures. Says Monsignor Geno Baroni, an assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development: "The underclass presents our most dangerous crisis, more dangerous than the Depression of 1929, and more complex...
Along the way, the reader can enjoy MacDonald's acid descriptions of the Sunbelt boneyards and debate his bleak editorial: given the depredations of the bulldozer, if there is a golden age in America it is far more likely to be enjoyed in Keokuk than in Fort Lauderdale...
...Bleak House...
Charles Dickens may have entertained some hope of reforming the tradition-encrusted lethargy of the law when he burlesqued its expensive inefficiencies in his 1853 novel Bleak House. But traditions have a way of enduring. New details need to be checked, new issues analyzed; more lawyers are hired to battle more attorneys on the other side. The Guinness Book of World Records gives its longevity award to a lawsuit that was filed in Poona, India, in 1205 and not settled until 1966.* In France, Attorney Jean d'Everlange vividly recalls the "Santoni affair," a controversy over the ownership...