Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bleak as the picture of the stagnating city is, however, it becomes worse with the introduction of public housing, revenue sharing, rent control, high welfare benefits, and other currently favored liberal programs. All these programs--by increasing the attractiveness of the city to the Underemployed-will, Forrester maintains, prove self-defeating in the end because they create overwhelming inflows of Underemployed. The essential problem is that an environment attractive to the Underemployed will draw in enough people to bring the attractiveness level down to that of surrounding areas. The city will have done little but enlarge the problems, enlarge...
...whole world just by looking. Finally attention is drawn to those eyes: great smudged pools, staring like a lover at life and death. The eyes of a Jew, a homosexual, an invalid and an artist-a foreigner to all countries. What was his favorite Dickens novel? Bleak House. How did he like his coffee? Double strength. Was he a generous tipper? He overtipped...
...Bleak Future. Although man began to mine silver on a small scale in about 2500 B.C., Patterson says that it was not until Rome took control of the silver mines in Iberia that it was able to attain the economic strength necessary for the rapid expansion of the empire. Silver production, mainly in Iberia, peaked between 50 B.C. and A.D. 100, when some 30,000 tons were extracted; Roman legions were furnishing 30,000 fresh slaves a year then to maintain the ranks of miners at 150,000. By the 3rd century A.D., as production steadily decreased, Roman coins...
...skinned fishermen haul Hopper's nets. He is an intense artist of the arrested moment, of the intermission between Act I and Act II of a play still being written. In general, there is no joy in the contemplation; the past seems full but futile, the future bleak but bearable. In the meantime, Hopper proposes the lean, almost unnoticed consolation of street lamplight on brownstone, of sunlight on lonely houses -and he paints the light and the loneliness as well as anyone...
...Tenant is not really a novel (or parable), but a bleak, relentless vision. It is full of that blend of realism and fantasy, comedy and pathos that distinguishes Malamud as one of America's best writers. That it does not end with a warm rush of saving compassion indicates that he is one of America's most honest writers as well. · R. Z. Sheppard