Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SPRINGSTEEN shuffled into this bleak landscape a few years ago and it was immediately clear that he was not just another pre-packaged rocker. His music simply did not sound like anything else being played at the time. Listening to his first two albums you wondered if Springsteen had slept through the Sixties, for his style owed almost nothing to recent groups: his music was influenced directly by rhythm and blues and early rock and roll, not rhythm and blues as the Rolling Stones played it and rock as handed down by the Beatles and the Grateful Dead. Springsteen managed...
...highway department. At the end of "Look How the Fish Live," when the young father has decided that survival of the fittest is indeed the rule of life, unethical as he finds it--all he can do is "accept his God-given limitations" and give up. Powers's bleak vision offers no hope. The traditional relations of the hierarchy are gone, and the only response left for the reader is a quiet desperation...
There were some bright sports in an otherwise bleak opening weekend as Harvard Captain Bill Carey garnered a spot on the All-Tournament first team for pumping in 36 points and hauling in 20 rebounds during the two-day event...
...would be a backward, unproductive step. So, for that matter, would be a total embracing of it, an attitude he attacks various people--including Harvard professors Daniel Bell and B.F. Skinner--for espousing. The future in a world in the grip of technique is more inevitable than it is bleak...
Less than a minute into the game, though, the outlook was as bleak as the grey skies overhead. Tiger forward Jim Hansen beat Crimson fullback Geoff Hargadon on a pass from Allan Marshall, leaving goalie Fred Herold virtually no chance of stopping the score...