Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...among planners. As proprietor of the multidisciplinary science of human settlements he calls Ekistics, he foresees the gradual evolution of "Ecumenopolis"-a world city formed by overlapping megalopolises. If present trends continue, he says, the world city will be a ghastly, inhuman place. Determined to head off such a bleak future, Doxiadis is trying to shape the growth of today's cities. He has just completed a fiveyear, $3,000,000 study of the 23,059-sq. mi. "Urban Detroit Area," sponsored by the Detroit Edison...
...payload separated from the mother ship, slowed down in the thickening atmosphere, and released drogue parachutes for the final part of its descent. Twelve days after it had been sent aloft from the giant Baikonur space complex 125 miles away. the lunar package was recovered by helicopter from the bleak, sparsely settled Ap steppes of Kazakhstan in central Asia. While the Russians trumpeted news of their accomplishment, the lunar sample was quickly flown to Moscow, where it was turned over for analysis to investigators of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The results, said the Soviet press, would be released...
...smooth concrete structures of unusual shapes-seem refined almost to the point of classicism. Yet the buildings form only part of the architect's real achievement-the reorganization, expansion and enlivening of a dreary college of 1,500 students. Even the site was challenging. Fredonia sprawled over a bleak landscape devoid of trees, natural features or lasting interest...
...trooper posing as a local cab driver named "Andy." He was only doing his job; the drug problem in Cape Cod's Barnstable County has reached the point where the court hears three or more such cases a day. Based on Andy's evidence, the Kennedy boys faced a bleak possibility: a maximum five years' confinement in the state house of correction...
...evolving fictions is the basis for Stevens' poetry, and it is most explicitly dealt with in The Necessary Angel, his collection of essays. His basic contention is that "the world is ugly/and the people are sad"; we are "natives of poverty, children of malheur." In order to escape this bleak universe, we create fictions which satisfy our most basic impulses for happiness and sensual contentment. These fictions unite us with our world, make us feel our universe to be a knowable place rather than an apocalyptic misery machine...