Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lady Bird is neither a reporter nor an amateur historian; one does not find insights into air strikes or bombing pauses. What she does convey eloquently are the fears and anxieties of a fiercely devoted wife, especially during the last two bleak years. In 1967 the Johnsons entered what she calls "the Valley of the Black Pig."*She was frankly alarmed by demonstrators: "Through every pore, you sense a sort of animal passion . . . What if I had suddenly broken into a run?" What she did, of course, was assume her "riding in the tumbrel" stance-shoulders square, head high, smile...
After the final whistle has blown, when the stadium is bleak in its emptiness, the football fan returns home, weary but exhilarated from his vicarious participation in "the game." And then, in the blah hours of the early morning, he will lighten the dark night of his soul by meditating on the fawnlike grace of a Lance Alworth, the brute power of a Buck Buchanan, the quick, vicious moves of a Ray Nitschke. And when he sleeps, he dreams. Personally, I have decided to dream tonight about fat, creaky George Blanda, 43, trundling out on the field last weekend...
...begin? Can an individual's passion be divided between the two without disaster to man or affront to God? Does God demand terrible sacrifice as atonement for an innocent appetite for earthly life? These are questions that Ingmar Bergman has grappled with in many of his 31 bleak, brooding films. In The Act of the Heart, Canadian Producer-Writer-Director Paul Almond tries to explore the same problems, while simultaneously creating a St. Joan-like allegory of a country girl's purity and passion...
Early in the second half of the main event, Pine Manor scored from a melee in front of the Radcliffe goal. The situation looked bleak for the Cliffies until Rouse scored at 13:07 with assists from Morehead and Lightbody...
...Black Muslims await Allah's destruction of the white devil but the Republic of New Africa and others are plunging into the revolutionary struggle. The first shoots of Afro-Islamic law are appearing in drafts of Black Laws and in emerging bleak courts. I have observed some of these beginnings from the inside and I estimate the potential to be comparable to the dreams of the early Zionists...