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Word: bleaknesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alexander-who is now an Overseer and who completed the University's negotiations during the black construction worker dispute last Fall-said that the nationwide pattern of minority employment in utility companies is "very bleak...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Mississippi Power and Light: Confidential Study Shows 4.5% Black Work Force | 3/13/1970 | See Source »

...actors to follow such script instructions convincingly? Casper Wrede, the British producer and director of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, has a simple solution: make them cold and miserable. For the filming of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's bleak novel about Stalin's political prisoners, Wrede persuaded a former inmate of a Soviet prison camp, now living in Paris, to make drawings from which a grimly authentic set could be built. Then he took his all-male, largely English cast to a location in Norway 200 miles north of Oslo, where the topography, light conditions and bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Simulating Siberia | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...what to think," the paper does seem to have a message. The message is not conveyed directly, but through the paper's whole style. The editors once admitted that, without conscious plan, their articles say "a great deal about the way this country is turning itself into a rather bleak, violent kind of place-in the name of a better world...

Author: By Jeremy S. Bluhm, | Title: The Phoenix: A 'Writer's Paper' | 2/27/1970 | See Source »

...Summarizing the situation, Sullivan's message said, "The financial picture for cities and towns in the year 1970 is bleak and efforts must be made at the local level to keep costs down, for it is unlikely that help will come from the Commonwealth...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Cambridge's 1970 Budget Nears $40 Million Mark | 2/25/1970 | See Source »

...rather in terms of the socially perceptive activist. This is a very different psychological set than, the one I knew myself at Harvard College, when majoring in the Humanities, in their various forms, was seen as the only way a human being could fit himself for the bleak world of the Depression...

Author: By M. S. K., | Title: Gentlemen And Gen Ed | 2/14/1970 | See Source »

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