Word: bleakness
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Dunlop, Peterson, and other Administration officials emphasized that the financial situation of Harvard, although bleak, is better than that of any other Ivy League school. For example, Dartmouth and Harvard are the only Ivy League schools increasing their budgets for scholarships. Some schools, while increasing tuition, will actually decrease their levels of financial...
...entire world turned into a bleak desert of melancholy, Neil Simon would be an oasis of laughter. His eye for the wryly amusing incongruities of life, his zingy one-line gag-ripostes, his ardently skilled desire to be entertaining-all these have made him the leading U.S. comic playwright for more than a decade. But like the clown with the yen to play Hamlet, Simon has had the urge, and been critically urged, to try his hand at more serious drama. The result is The Gingerbread Lady, a schizoid play in which the dramatist is so busy applying plasters...
...slightly perplexed daughter of one of his former editors-as the traditional loyal helpmeet. She seems to have ended by boring him. The result was that in his fiction he was never able to display a fully rounded view of women. Even his most memorable females-Esther Summerson in Bleak House, or Mrs. Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit-are little more than ingenious cutouts, painted in brilliant hues of pathos and humor...
...moralist and improvising Toby-jug showman. Readers are now ready to acknowledge with Wilson that Dickens "leaps the century and speaks to our fears, our violence, our trust in the absurd, more than any other English Victorian writer." It no longer seems so far from the chancery court in Bleak House to Kafka's trial of Joseph...
...growth rate of income is no longer keeping pace and the chances of its being made to do so in the immediate future appear bleak indeed," said President Pusey...