Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five members of Lynch's Cabinet, as well as mayors of nine Eire cities, attended the mass funeral in Londonderry for the 13 victims of Bloody Sunday. Cardinal Conway presided over the hour-long service at St. Mary's Church. Outside, 10,000 mourners prayed in a bleak, icy rain. As the throng murmured in unison, "May the angels lead you into paradise, martyrs await your coming," a woman groaned, "No, no, no." "Jimmy, my lover boy," sobbed another woman, upon seeing one of the 13 identical hardwood coffins." He was only 17," moaned a third...
...earn $36 million this year. One factor in the recovery is President George Spater's successful campaign to focus on the growing leisure market by picking up routes to Hawaii, the South Pacific and the Caribbean. Pan Am lost $48 million in 1970, and its future looked so bleak last year that the CAB's Browne raised the possibility of some kind of federal assistance for the line. Now Wall Street analysts figure that Pan Am will break even this year and turn a substantial profit in 1973. United Air Lines reduced its losses from $41 million...
...poor treatment inferior to that in many industrial countries; a housing policy which permits the rich to escape to the suburbs, while forcing the poor to live in substandard housing. Is Mr. Herrnstein going to tell the children of America's poor as they look forward to the bleak prospect of living their lives in America that society is removing "arbitrary barriers?" In fact, arbitrary barriers dominate our society. It is mistaken to think that if we accept this society on its own terms, these barriers will drop away...
...vast majority, Campbell believes, the West's general lack of spiritual authority has been a disaster. Forty years in the study of eternal symbols have made Campbell a conservative of a rather dark hue. Though he is optimistic about the long range, he finds the present bleak indeed. "We have seen what has happened to primitive communities unsettled by the white man's civilization," he observes. "With their old taboos discredited, they immediately go to pieces, disintegrate, and become resorts of vice and disease. Today the same thing is happening...
...readers are lucky, they may get a durable broadax wit like Art Buchwald. If they are very lucky, they find someone like Russell Baker, writer of the New York Times's "Observer" column. At his best, Baker fills his allotted space opposite the editorial page with bizarre, often bleak fantasies about human foolishness. At his second best, he holds a funhouse mirror up to the nature of the consumer state. Baker's "growing family," for example, does not increase numerically but expands through overweight and the excess tonnage of possessions...