Word: bleaknesses
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...some 50 members of the audience, who left during the first act, Jenufa was apparently still too bleak to take. But those who stayed let loose with a volley of bravos for the cast and brilliant Yugoslav Conductor Lovro Von Matacic. It looked as if Composer Janacek, in his slow and tortuous way, might at last be winning the audience that had so long eluded...
...winter snow began drifting down on the Chinese troops camped arrogantly on the bleak slopes of Indian Kashmir, all India suddenly became aware that Red China was not simply guilty of "overenthusiastic pursuit of Tibetan refugees" (as one Indian official had first surmised), but was embarked on a systematic quarrel with India, and not particularly keen for negotiation. The prospect loomed that Red China wanted a test of strength with its No. 1 rival in Asia...
...take comfort in Kosygin's promise of "2,400,000 new, well-appointed apartments" to house 10,000,000 Soviet citizens. The government is making a real effort to catch up on the nation's desperate housing shortage, and though the acres of new mass housing are bleak in design, cramped in individual space, and shoddy in workmanship, they are a godsend to lucky tenants...
...Orde Wingate was an obscure, 30-year-old British army lieutenant stationed at an obscure post in the Sudan. His future seemed bleak, for most people found him untidy in person and conceited in mind. All his actions tended to infuriate, whether he was receiving visitors naked, or praising Communism to hidebound Tories, or sneering at sports to his athletic fellow officers. It was easy to understand why his schoolboy nickname had been "Stinker...
...island is a bleak South Atlantic rock ten miles long and seven miles wide. Eight months of the year it rains, three months the sun blazes down, one month it is bearable. Of 600 officers and men of H.M.S. Conqueror, stationed at the island in the early 19th century, more than 100 died in an 18-month period of hepatitis and amoebic dysentery. A rat-infested house on the atherapeutic isle served as prison for the man who had marched vast armies from Moscow to Madrid, and once ruled half the Christian world. Only a few years before, Napoleon...