Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Rosovsky's bleak budget letter and the cutbacks in Faculty size it forecasts...
...beneficiaries of this transfer were a disparate group of oil-possessing Africans, Asians, Latin Americans and, most favored of all, Arabs, who provided two-thirds of the petroleum exports and have more than three-fifths of the proven petroleum reserves in the non-Communist world. One bleak, sparsely populated country is by far the world's greatest seller and reservoir of oil, and one dour, ascetic and shrewd man is its undisputed ruler...
When the African republic of Botswana was born in 1966, its future seemed as bleak as most of its arid countryside. A landlocked nation the size of France, occupied largely by the Kalahari Desert, the former British protectorate was suffering from six years of drought, an impoverished government, and a subsistence economy based almost entirely on cattle raising. Now, discoveries of vast mineral deposits promise to lift Botswana above the problems shared by the rest of black Africa's non-oil-producing countries...
Conductor Schippers and the Met put the lie to that argument last week in a way that demonstrated all over again what grand opera is supposed to be and mean. Mussorgsky's orchestral writing turns out to be stark, but not as bleak as one had been led to believe. His melodic style is roughhewn and at times commonplace, but never without a specific point. What the new Met production revealed above all was that, amazingly enough, Mussorgsky knew exactly what he was doing. He also made fierce demands on the orchestral players, often asking, say, the horns...
...SOLDIERS by Robert Stone. An epitaph for the late 1960s etched in acid, this brilliantly bleak novel traces three muddled Americans and a stash of Vietnamese heroin through the counterculture rubble of California...