Word: bleakness
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...addition, the current outlook for achieving both success and social change may not be as bleak--especially for Harvard graduates--as it is generally painted. Bok said, comparing the status of minorities, the condition of the poor, and the prospects of escaping nuclear war today favorably with conditions when he graduated...
...owing $50,000 in taxes, he moved to a working-class neighborhood in Paris. During the '60s, he wrote gloomy memoirs under the titles Not Dying and Don't Go, but If You Must, Say Hello to Everybody. His novel Boys and Girls Together (1963) took a bleak view of marriage...
...Force wants to hide 200 missiles in the bleak Great Basin desert of Utah and Nevada. Installations spreading across an area about the size of the state of New Jersey would require building 4,600 shelters and 9,000 miles of roads. Along the roadways, flatbed vehicles, forever rolling, would carry missiles tipped with ten warheads each. That is the $56 billion scheme for safeguarding the proposed MX system, a brobdingnagian shell game meant to foil a Soviet attack on the missiles. The plan has been derided as an ineffective, ecology-destroying boondoggle, and the MX now has a powerful...
Tests on the mucus, which Hyman had collected by poking a giant Q-Tip into the blowhole, revealed four different types of pneumonia bacteria. The prospects seemed bleak. But scientists dosed the animal with penicillin and began serving it squid-a sperm whale favorite. Soon it started "sitting" higher in the water, raising its head and emitting the clicking sounds that sperms seem to use for communication or echo locating...
...songs, like those of his crony and frequent collaborator Butch Hancock, are bleak and wistful and angry, awash in the colors that Joe picked up on all of his magical misery tours. Ely's band, along with the traditional complement of bass, rhythm guitar and drums, also includes a sax and an accordion, so its sound sometimes takes on Tex-Mex overtones, or even a certain savor from Cajun territory. Ely's sources are scrupulously eclectic. Perhaps his nearest spiritual peer is that old renegade Jerry Lee Lewis. Live Shots contains one old tune, Fingernails, that may once...