Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the Bay of Pigs invasion got under way, Schlesinger was ordered to tell newsmen the cover story that there were only 300 to 400 men in the landing force-not 1,400. "I was lying," he admitted last month. He regretted it, he said, but the choice was stark: "Either you get out or you play the game." Most newsmen appreciated his dilemma, but some took pleasure in needling him mercilessly about it. They had reason to do so, for they have never quite forgiven Arthur for writing in Foreign Affairs two years ago, that newspaper and magazine stories...
...other city, and the unavoidable traffic jams have elicited no examples of Christmas spirit from the participants. But somehow the city keeps her head. She looks with grudging admiration at Prudential Center, like the split level of a nouveau riche nephew, but stays home for the holidays. The stark slab may mean money and progress and all those other nasty things, but the important thing now is the old house, the Christmas wreaths looking dignified on Louisburg Square, the candles at the State House...
Graduate school admissions and fellowship applications reflect similar differences in outlook. That IBM-atmosphere they were rioting about is reflected in the stark simplicity and, perforated, EZ-to-process, pages of Berkeley's form. As for Harvard's GSAS form, its appearance would enthrall any student of the visual arts: at least five different kinds of type reflect the level of significance of various questions. Xeroxed and informally stapled at the corners, Wellesley's graduate fellowship form reflects the combination of casualness and warmth which characterizes afternoon teas at their best...
Superficially, Bay of the Angels is a hard film. Everything appears in stark black and white: the lines are sharp, the men wear only dark suits, the women white with bold black designs. Usually there is no music, few people, and little noise. Conversation is clipped. "You bought a car?" "Yes." "But not on your salary." I won 800,000 francs as Enghien. Don't tell my wife. Come along...
...streaks of luck, lose it all, then make a killing, and buy their way into the Jet Set. He gets a tux, she a couple of evening gowns, and they check into Monte Carlo. The luxury, like the poverty, seems hard: there are the same straight lines, the same stark blacks and whites, set off by the flickers of brocade and jewelry. But the hardness is unreal because it has no effect on the people within it. Jeanne lives only for the game and seems not to care whether she sleeps in the railway waiting room or in the Hotel...