Word: bleaknesses
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...Park Avenue's Seagram Building, designed by Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, has been judged by New York City's Tax Commission to be so expensively elegant that it should be taxed on a basis about 50% higher than if it were one of the bleak glass boxes that surround...
...best of the bebop pianists. He left New York in 1959, briefly emerging from the fog that had kept him close to mental hospitals since 1947. In Paris, he is distant, silent and alone. He scarcely talks to anyone except to murmur the two-line litany that describes his bleak fate. "Do you like me?" he will ask, and if the answer is yes, he says, "Then buy me a cognac." At The Blue Note, he sits slumped over the piano, ear cocked down to the keys, and he plays like a man trying to recall how he used...
Once again that modern miracle-the capitalist, citizen-controlled U.S. economy -confounded the doubters. Only a few months ago President Kennedy had uttered bleak warnings of recession. Academicians and government brain-trusters talked worriedly of "high-level stagnation." When the economy got bouncy late last year, they said it was only a "last gasp." Some gasp. As of last week, almost all indicators were still on the rise-and the surge had very little help from government...
...chocolate-skinned Robert Sobukwe, 38, head of the black nationalist Pan-African Congress, was sentenced to three years in jail for "incitement to riot." As his release date drew near last week, Sobukwe, a slim onetime university lecturer, was hustled from the maximum-security prison in Pretoria to a bleak detention camp on Robben Island in Table Bay, six miles from Cape Town. There he learned, just the day before he was to receive freedom, that South Africa's Parliament had rammed through a new security act empowering Justice Minister Johannes Vorster to keep political prisoners in custody indefinitely...
...mixed colorless Italian and Spanish songs with minor arias by Cilea, Caccini, Massenet, Lalo, Puccini, and Bellini, and since the Puccini was "E Lucevan le Stelle," which is barely music, Bellini was left as the tallest of the pygmies. An usher told me that Tagliavini has been singing these bleak, unimaginative programs for years...