Word: dismalness
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...rates (burglaries up from 594 in 1969 to 842 last year), low-income housing, downtown business stagnation, taxes, traffic, student unrest at Northwestern (which has a 21-year-old black woman as student body president). Evanston's acting city manager, Edward Martin, 27, finds the scene far from dismal. "We have all the problems of a major city," he says, "but on a manageable level. I feel we're a great laboratory in that sense." One thing that helps enormously is the high level of citizen involvement in everything from antiwar rallies through school board meetings to Fourth...
EVEN its defenders admit that El Monte is an eyesore, a blur of suburban sprawl 14 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Its boundaries meander without obvious aim or purpose. Tiny houses, usually stucco and rarely worth more than $30,000, are jumbled together with tacky businesses along its dismal streets. Some 70,000 people call it home, but only a city father could love it. "This is a lower-middle-class workingman's community," says City Administrator Kenneth Bolts. Unnecessarily, he adds: "We will never be a Beverly Hills...
...candidates is another indication of the fragmentation of the peace movement; and the failure to come up with a strong and attractive personality may prove fatal. Me Carthy can do a great deal to win support for a peace candidate. But his 1968 campaign, which he refers to with dismal regularity, was a failure, and McCarthy himself was largely to blame. His running again would be another depressing example of egoistic interests clouding the cause of peace...
...young blacks between the ages of 16 and 22 it approaches 40%, nearly three times as high as for their white peers, and that does not count those who, in total despair, have dropped out of the search for work altogether. Job programs have been cut, housing remains dismal, education still fails to motivate...
...interesting, and the artfulness with which it is recorded becomes secondary (Lady Bird Johnson's White House Diary ); sometimes that relation is inverted, and clever treatment makes dull material zippy ( Cleo from 5 to 7. Warhol's novel-transcription a); sometimes neither event nor method is engaging, and the dismal result is a CBS Miss America pageant, or Windsong...