Word: bleakness
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...bleak scene. But Brown is a bleak team in a bleak stadium. Hell, Brown is a bleak school and Providence is a bleak city...
...Under a bleak, overcast sky yesterday at Cumnock Field, the Harvard field hockey team fell to Boston College in double overtime...
...substance, Generation X paints a fairly bleak self-portrait. The narrator drones on about his inane life, his inane friends and their inane lives, and his own pseudo-dys-functional family. The nominal plot revolves around three friends in Palm Springs, California, who spend most of their time swapping wacked-out parables that are supposed to contain within them, somewhere, the meaning of modern life (or lack thereof). The message? You guessed it, Butt-head: it sucks. Everything sucks. "Our Parents Had More," one chapter wails; for good measure, Coupland throws in an appendix of figures illustrating that, in fact...
...That paper on Dickens's use of irony is due in but scant hours, yet Bleak House is sitting on the shelf untouched. Some students, facing this predicament, might throw their arms up in despair. Those in the know, however, don't sweat it--they simply reach for the trusty black and yellow stripes...
...more than 30 years, lunch trucks have offered Harvard students and faculty an alternative to bleak dining hall fare...