Word: abjectly
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...usually associated with Antonin Artaud’s theater of cruelty, and of the style of director Jess R. Burkle ’06, whose spring production, “Knock,” was lauded for its dark comedy. However, I wasn’t prepared for the abject violence of this new script, nor the calculation with which Burkle’s cast and crew approached it. It never lifted my spirits, but its intelligence and precision were overwhelming...
...pathetic plight of the inhabitants of Nigeria's Niger Delta was noteworthy [May 22]. I am glad Time reported that the militants prowling the swamps and creeks of the delta have been armed by politicians, the same people responsible for the continued degradation and consequent state of abject poverty pervading the area. The deprivation in the region is a reflection of Nigeria's ailing socioeconomic realities as well as the greed and ineptitude of its political élite. Politicians in Nigeria wield too much power, often to the detriment of the people and the state. Why is it that...
...Dartmouth both say on their websites that the ceremony began at Oxford University in 1432, when each graduate had to deliver a Latin oration. But Gomes traces the ceremony to 13th-century Cambridge University, where graduates sat shrouded in hoods—“a picture of abject humility and utter embarrassment.” The service has been part of Harvard’s exercises since the University’s first Commencement in 1642, six years after the school’s founding. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
...passing years have proved him right. Those cheery tourists need only have peered out of their French Quarter hotel-room windows to see the ugly and abject poverty on full display at the squalid Iberville housing projects (average annual income of its 833 households: $7,279), sitting just next door to the Vieux Carr off Canal Street. If the visitors had taken a few steps beyond Tulane University and the nearby Garden District mansions, they would have found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a ghetto choked with rudimentary shotgun houses, dilapidated housing projects and living conditions that seem...
...underground had only 600 members (more joined later) so there wasn?t much they could do but try to save their own skins. But he seems to feel that it was better that there was a resistance - something on which to build a heroic myth after the nation?s abject surrender - than if there were not, and after seeing this film, one has to agree. Somebody had to do something, even if it was largely symbolic. And they did, at least, tie up a lot of German troops as they slipped through the shadows...