Word: bleakness
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...absurd 1 a.m. room-party curfews and alcohol restrictions, and then wonders why people flock to the finals clubs. Harvard’s social scene is a nonentity compared to that of almost any other school in the country. For first-year students, the social scene is often particularly bleak. It was quite refreshing to read about a group of students truly disfruiting Harvard’s weekend offerings. Furthermore, the actions of the students profiled in the article were in no way dangerous or abnormal for people of their age; in fact, they showed far more restraint and responsibility...
...opinions on them, unburdened by preconceived dogma or diatribe. Their failure to do so is a lazy intellectual cop-out. Moreover, without the emergence of individuals from colleges like Harvard who are prepared to question publicly the wisdom of the ruling elites, the next few decades look extremely bleak for both of the parties in Washington. Student activism, for the sake of both the parties and the students involved, must come to involve active policy debates as well as vigorous phone banking...
Durang’s play is in many ways a bleak statement on the disappointments of life and the inability to communicate and introduces two homosexual characters to update William’s vision of the American family and society. Still this production focused more on slapstick comic delivery than an exploration of these more serious themes...
Despite the bleak economic signals, the never-say-die ethos that propelled some job seekers to success in the first place refuses to let them give up. During her year of unemployment, Zoe Quan has plumbed her network of contacts, built over 17 years in telecommunications, to no avail. Her degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago have not bailed her out, nor has her minority status. "Diversity in hiring has fallen away as a priority," she notes. Quan, single and in her 40s, has only a few months' worth of living expenses left in her nest...
...idea for his latest film, The Magdalene Sisters, from a documentary he happened upon while channel surfing. If ever creative inspiration isn't so close at hand, writer-director Peter Mullan can look to his own bleak Glaswegian upbringing. The visuals would certainly be striking. Mullan's family led an outwardly prosperous life in a large pillared house that his mother instructed him and his seven siblings to tell people was owned, not rented. The lie fostered an illusion of affluence, but behind the façade, says Mullan, "we didn't even have any furniture. We were dirt poor...