Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amnesty "grow by leaps and bounds" on the east coast as it has done in Western Europe. She would also like to see Amnesty establish outposts in Communist countries, but the quashing of a Soviet chapter two weeks after its inception last spring makes those prospects rather bleak...
...democratic leaders choose the correct policies and explain them forthrightly?a distressingly big if?the prospects are not all bleak. Enough remains of Adam Smith's self-adjusting market to give the policymakers some assistance. If, as seems likely, the recent recession has broken the force of inflation, the slowing of price rises will probably encourage consumers later this year to begin buying many more cars, appliances and other goods. Then businessmen who have been zealously cutting inventories might find themselves with too little stock to maintain sales and would be forced to step up production...
...some circles people take a condescending view of the work, meeting at its heavy doses of nostalgia, sentimentality, and homespun platitudes. But if the realm of art is wide enough to contain such bleak and pessimistic views of man and the world as Shakespeare's King Lear, Sartre's No Exit, and Beckett's Endgame, then it is wide enough to contain Wilder's warm, gentle, compassionate and hopeful approach. Wilder early reacted against the tradition of naturalism, with its emphasis on the seamy and sordid side of life, and has by nature tended to look through rose-colored glasses...
...outlook for tens of thousands of other teachers across the nation is equally bleak. Caught between inflated costs and declining enrollment, which results in less financial aid from the state, public school systems have been forced to cut back sharply on the size of their teaching staffs. In Michigan alone, 6,000 teachers have been given layoff notices. Some 8,000 New York City teachers and 3,000 principals, counselors and secretaries face the loss of their jobs. (In addition, the city will lose 5,000 more teachers through regular attrition.) Says William Graybeal, researcher at the National Education Association...
...champagne corks are not yet popping, there is reason for at least muted jubilation. The longest, most brutal recession in the lifetime of most Americans is now over, and a recovery is beginning. It is likely to be fitful at first, and the daily headlines will oscillate between bleak and bullish. But shortly after Labor Day, when the usual summer slack period is over, production and sales should be rising fairly rapidly...