Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some individuals stand involuntarily exiled from society. Others pass like ships in the night, sometimes crashing into each other and sinking like the pitiful casualties they are, but more often cruising by with an air of indifference or self-involvement. There is little or no love left in the bleak world Malamud portrays. Neither strong hatred nor profound affection helps to close the numerous gaps he tears in the stuff of human relations...
What held up the legislation for so long is the complexities rising from the fact that Venice is not one but three different cities. There is the historic town built on 118 alluvial islands in a lagoon, plus two other communities on the mainland: the bleak, modern residential suburb of Mestre, which the daily Corriere della Sera calls a "delirium of concrete," and the huge, fume-filled industrial port of Marghera. Any action to help Venice often turns out to harm her ugly sisters. For example, Venice is sinking in part because the pumping of fresh water from artesian wells...
...After a bleak winter following her husband's defeat, Eleanor McGovern is writing a book based largely on her "introspections" in the bulging black notebooks that she kept during the long campaign. She is also hitting the lecture circuit with commencement speeches at colleges and high schools. Eleanor addresses herself to the Watergate scandal as a caution to graduates. "If I could give one gift to each of you," she says, "it would be the ability to draw a simple line-that line you will not cross...
Smith began his exploits in Friday's game with UMass at Fenway Park. The Minutemen jumped on Brayton in the first for a pair of runs on a double by UMass ace pitcher Mike Flanagan and a run producing single off the bat of Mike Koperniak. It looked bleak indeed until the fourth when, with Joe Sciolla on first, Jimmy Stoeckel blasted a shot over the famous Green Monster guarding Fenway's left field and indeed all the way across the street behind the park to tie the game...
...loss climaxed a season of ups and downs for the racquetmen. When number one man Harris Masterson quit the team before the season began, their prospects looked bleak. They then surprised everyone by reeling off seven straight victories, only to be brought back to ground by an overwhelming Columbia contingent which beat them, 6-3. This marks the second straight year that the netmen have gone through the rest of their schedule undefeated only to be edged by the Lions and Tigers...