Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happens to black students and teachers in some school districts where the terms for desegregation have been determined unilaterally by local white school boards. In recent testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, five young blacks and an official of the National Education Association described a bleak pattern of "internal segregation," which produces separate classrooms, separate lunch and gym periods and even separate bells so that blacks and whites will not use the halls at the same time. In Louisiana's DeSoto Parish, buses pick up blacks at 5:30 a.m. so that white students...
Like his novels, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s message to the graduating class of Bennington College was by turns desolately winsome, merely bleak and utterly but almost gaily despondent. Confessing to congenital pessimism, Vonnegut told the graduates: "Everything is going to become unimaginably worse and never get better again...
...does appear that all people seek visual joy, whether they are Steins buying Matisse paintings or housewives selecting fabric at Corcoran's. Project '70 demonstrates that it is feasible to offer people such pleasures in their cities, and that therefore proves that cityscapes need not be as bleak and depressing as they typically...
Last was a leopard shark, billeted in close quarters, looking bilious and rapacious. I watched him swim urgently into the wall, forced to close a circle despite his desire to strike out on a straight line; the passion for linearity, the fatality of circularity, the bleak, self-depleting alternation of ferocity and grim quiescence; above all, the constriction, the small diameter of the circle, with the glass portion of the circumference flashing ever changing, ever irrelevant glimpses of the other spectator strolling among the circles, always falling imperceptibly to his right; these thoughts passed through my mind. The circle...
...Nevertheless, thousands of visitors trudged up and down endless flights of stairs to see paintings, sprayed-water "street sculptures," light shows and dramatic performances that ranged from the inspired to the inane. Above all, they saw evidence of the hard work and ingenuity that have transformed 40 blocks of bleak, empty spaces into home, work space and playground...