Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this June runs high. Among seniors in liberal arts, this fear verges on panic. IBM, for example, plans to hire fewer than 50 humanities majors out of the 500 students it intends to recruit this year. Because of the general belt tightening in education, graduate students face similar bleak prospects. One future Harvard Ph.D. in English sent resumes to 108 colleges, was interviewed by only eleven, and received one offer?from the American University in Beirut...
Despite the occasional note of optimism voiced by admissions directors to placate their alumni and salve their wounded spirits, the outlook is bleak for the prep schools. If the economic squeeze isn't damaging enough, the growing rebellion of once awed or indifferent thirteen-year-olds should be enough to doom a few schools and hurt, if not cripple, many others...
...than politics. States and cities everywhere are in a fiscal crisis. New York, Cleveland, Newark and Detroit have had to cut back on services. On a single day last month, three Governors-all Republicans -sounded separate doleful warnings. Nelson Rockefeller reported New York to be in "a bleak fiscal situation," Thomas Meskill said Connecticut is "wallowing in debt," and Linwood Holton predicted for Virginia a $16 million state deficit by mid-1972 and no emergency state aid for hard-pressed local governments...
...achieve authenticity, he spent six weeks tramping over bleak vistas in Wales and northern England. The cast, fortified by daily rations of vitamin C, slogged through gales, rain, freezing temperatures and even hailstones. Polanski, 37, whose appearance suggests a Polish leprechaun, bounded all over his set, doing a little of everybody's job-digging up a rock, moving a prop, holding a horse. His eye for detail is such that he would interrupt a sword fight sequence to adjust the fold of a cloak, or, if a natural rainstorm did not seem convincing enough, supplement it by hosing...
...bleak picture indeed, and nothing short of restructuring the distribution of the tax dollar is likely to alleviate it. So grim is the prospect facing the cities that when the Superior Tea and Coffee Co. as a promotion stunt recently presented the City of Boston with $100 in reparation for the harbor pollution occasioned by the Boston Tea Party in 1773, Mayor Kevin White could only note with a trace of bitterness that, after nearly 200 years, Boston was still faced with taxation without representation...