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...blooded in metabolism and-we like to think-temperament, can play a similarly pitiless game. Runts of litters are routinely ignored, pushed out or consigned to the worst nursing spots somewhere near Mom's aft end, where the milk flow is the poorest and the outlook for survival the bleakest. The rest of the brood is left to fight it out for the best, most milk-rich positions...
...grave. There is, finally, no one in the novel or in this movie who is untouched (or unmoved) by that dark and hopeless fatedness. So you can, if you will, think of All the King's Men as a purely political parable, but that is to miss its blackest, bleakest meanings...
...students can still receive credit and/or funding for travel to India; while those seeking the College’s support for experiences in Lebanon are completely out of luck. State Department travel warnings are notorious for overstating danger and eschewing intra-country regional distinctions in favor of painting the bleakest picture possible. Harvard College’s travel policy should seek to do the opposite...
...song, Mhairi's Wedding. The prospect of jumping out of a window to the lyrics, "Step we gaily, on we go ?" was more than her resolve could bear. It's a classic Kennedy moment, the kind of divine comedic intervention that lights up her best fiction and overwhelms the bleakest corners. There could be no more astute and no less tedious a companion than Kennedy on a bender to oblivion. Salman Rushdie said once that what he sought in his novels was to fill the "god-shaped hole" left by his loss of faith. Her faith intact, Kennedy knows that...
...that signifies the catastrophe of the Holocaust. Visitors enter an angular, concrete cell in which the only light comes from a narrow slot high above. When the heavy door is closed behind you, you are simply there in the dark, confronting the desolation of history at one of its bleakest dead ends. You can barely hear the street traffic outside; the world cannot hear...