Word: bleakness
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...MCAS picture looks bleak now. But just three years ago, Cambridge was the center of attention when the state announced the results of the very first MCAS tests...
...example, was molded by the Great Depression. Although he was a witty, optimistic man, a cold wind blew sometimes from the back of his biography - the knowledge that the world could collapse. Even as he prospered later, the '30s of his boyhood whistled thinly through his mind. The bleak years gave him an ambience of expectation about life and its dangers...
...only massive work on public grounds; the other pieces were set up within the university's bounds. "Steelworker," a figurative piece by Chicano artist Luis Jimenez, stands proudly in a Statue-of-Liberty-esque pose over the plaza. Though intended as a symbol of humanity against the bleak brick, "Steelworker" doesn't quite appeal to some beholders. Student Jeff Barret believes that the piece is "in keeping with the overall brutalist, industrial theme" of the UMass campus. "Looking at 'Steelworker,' I see something chrome, hard, cold. He doesn't look happy," comments Barret. "This whole place is brutalist. It could...
...observe that moment of the year when, with the coming of the cold, we have to go inside and stay there for several months. From now on, if we venture out, we must wear gloves. Thanksgiving, with its bleak, drizzly gemutlichkeit and warm, unventilated smells of cooking, makes us as sleepy as bears and accommodates us to the idea of winter quarters in the cave. That's why the Chicago Bears always play the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving afternoon on a flickering TV set somewhere off on the margins of the cooking...
...distinctly we remember it was in the bleak November; And each drunken Lampoon member slowly staggered to the floor. With conscience bold and resolve steely, we took the name of Steve C. Hely Longing to see our friend fly freely--freely from the Lampoon door-- Never to perch again atop that painted Lampoon door-- We saved the bird, and nothing more...