Word: bleakness
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...year old Jackson painted a bleak view of American 21 years after the stain civil rights leader made his famous "I Have a Dream" speech...
...divorce of intellect and feeling is the wrong place to look for a modern Dover Beach, however, it may yet have bearing on the right one. The world does not look as unremittingly bleak as Arnold painted it in those final lines of Dover Beach (How could it?), but it often can feel that bleak--minus joy, love, light, certitude, peace and help for pain. As yet, no industry has disinvented poverty or starvation. And one advanced invention threatens to turn the earth into a polar waste. Even if most people learn to adjust to machines or the new science...
...movies ! like Midnight Express and Fame, Director Parker oversentimentalized innocence and oversensationalized the cruelty of the world that oppresses it. Not so in Birdy. Working from a lively adaptation of William Wharton's admired 1978 novel, he has achieved his personal best. He has turned an ordinarily bleak Philadelphia location into something akin to the Prince of Darkness's castle. He has made his principal character, who might have been just another teen angel, into a complex figure, comical and a little dangerous. He has, finally, transcended realism without traducing it. His movie does what Birdy himself can never quite...
...laughed and told them, 'I'm going to Provo because there's great skiing.' " Is that truly the reason? "It was a factor." If Coach Edwards' brilliance is the passing game, his wisdom is treating as assets what the previous coaches in all the bleak years before 1972 considered liabilities, including snowfalls. One of 14 children who farmed the ground near where the stadium stands now, Edwards is a wit who pretends to have hay in his hair. "We come to town with a ten-dollar bill in one pocket and the Ten Commandments...
...rebels contend that the future is not that bleak. The Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), the largest of the guerrilla groups, has about 6,000 troops, up from 4,500 a year ago, deep inside Nicaragua. FDN Leader Adolfo Calero Portocarrero says he is close to Unking forces with the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE), another contra group operating in southern Nicaragua. The chiefs of two Miskito Indian rebel groups remain at odds, but disgruntled commanders in both camps are trying to forge an alliance on the battlefield. Though many divisions remain, the FDN is gradually exerting its control over the entire...