Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not provide a physical context for the actors that can compare with the highly-nuanced emotional context they create. The play is set in Wakefield, Massachusetts, a small town north of Boston. All action takes place in the home of Margaret and Will. Lee captures the bleak and barren quality of their marriage in the dingy walls and sparse furnishing of his interior but somehow he fails to convey the sense that this is a distinctly American environment. Instead, the setting seems more suited to Pinter's Birthday Party than a play set in New England in 1974. Without...
...recent book, The Human Prospect, economist Robert L. Heilbroner '40, author of the classic textbook, The Worldly Philosophers, sketches a bleak picture for the future. He addresses himself specifically to the hopelessly broad question: "Is there hope for man?" After what seems like an unjustifiably short amount of space for what could potentially fill volumes Heilbroner comes to the following conclusion...
...most pleasant scenery to man's eye-assuming anyone could survive in a world without water-would be the delicately terraced hills and snug valleys on the gently sloping continental shelves. The rest of the ocean floor would be mostly a vast wasteland of muddy ooze, as bleak in its way as the Sahara...
...Bleak Outlook. It might be argued that that is not necessarily bad news: a strong expansion could worsen the nation's already horrendous inflation. Yet the outlook on prices is also bleak. True, a drop in farm goods held the rise in wholesale prices in June to an annual rate of 6%, the first less-than-double-digit figure in seven months. But even the usually optimistic Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, points out that farm prices are rising again in July and concedes that a continuing spiral in industrial commodity prices...
...many of his men fell here." Yair himself recalled that it had taken three days and nights to gain the hill. "A lot of blood was spilled here. But if we have to give it back, we have to give it back." He remained seated, staring out over the bleak landscape...