Word: bleakness
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...title suggests, this adaptation follows a modern-day Ulysses as he travels to retrieve his son, who is being held by state social services after the death of his mother, Ulysses’s ex-wife. The play is a powerful and bleak journey through a mind tortured by a violent, war-filled past. Based on the prototypical road trip saga, Highway Ulysses is simultaneously the poignant memoir of an abused wife and mother and a commentary on the myths of war and heroism...
...modern mix of string instruments and synthesizers, played with intelligence and skill by local Cambridge music group The Empty House Cooperative, conveys a stirring and bleak picture of this musical mini-epic. Repeated cycles of slow, minimal phrases contrasted with sharp, often jilting rhythms give a sense of the shock and unrelenting memories that accompany war veterans...
...numbers are bleak...
...many Harvard students, Valentine’s Day passed unceremoniously, a bleak reminder of their single status. Turns out that Harvard’s dating scene is so notoriously weak that the Undergraduate Council has decided to take action: they’ve formed a task force. Council representative Sungmi A. Choi ’06 will head a dating subcommittee under the aegis of the Campus Life Committee...
...time talking about how Harvard doesn’t support BGLTQ work. It’s quite true that the field needs further institutional support here, but I was hired here precisely to teach in this field. The territory is uneven but by no means uniformly bleak! But, yes, my term is up, and I am going to teach at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall...