Word: bleakness
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...Delanoë made a victory speech and accordionists entertained champagne-swilling supporters of his Socialist-Communist-Green coalition. But while they celebrated wresting control of the French capital from the Gaullist Rally for the Republic party that has ruled it for nearly a quarter century, elsewhere the picture was bleak. In the voting for mayors and city councils of 36,000 municipalities, Gaullist and center-right parties took 38 large and midsize cities from the left and lost only 17 to their rivals. Overall, the rightists won 52% of the total vote...
...quite. Ten minutes later, I'm back in the air. Another storm. This one lasts the whole flight. I run through my bleak assumptions. This time, I answer them for myself. Pilot. Lousy communicator. Plane. Holding together. Made for this. Look out the window. The pulsing clouds remind me of Van Gogh. My hands stay on my lap. I play with my rings. I'll be coming down soon enough. I register between a 3 and a 4. I can do this...
...human effort and technology in experiments to clone humans represents the worst type of scientific endeavor [SOCIETY, Feb. 19]. Why is it that Nature, in all its splendid manifestations, tends everywhere to spectacular diversity and mind-boggling detail, yet whenever we seek to copy it, we achieve only bleak standardization and stifling unity? Our scientific obsession with the cloning of spiritless matter will lead us to further spiritual impoverishment and predictable genetic disaster. MARTHE MULLER Cape Town...
...slightly more complicated. The Bears have the most to prove in the ECAC tournament, as late-season lapses have left them with the smallest margin of error among the semifinalists. Nevertheless, if Brown goes on to win the conference tournament, the Harvard-St. Lawrence loser would have a bleak chance of being selected...
Furst transmuted his political horrors to the bleak years from 1938 to 1942 when Europe was in extremis. The totalitarianism his reluctant heroes combat is Nazism, but his books are less about Hitler than all the Hitlers: his belief that the suffering was not caused just by one man, but by the lust for power of all the predators out there. "And if you think they're dead," Furst adds, "take a look at Yugoslavia. They're still out there, alive and well...