Word: darken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of today's criticism tends to "darken understanding and blight enjoyment" of literature, Dame Helen Gardner, Norton Professor of Poetry and professor of English literature emerita at Oxford, said yesterday in the first of the 1979-80 Norton Lectures, titled "Wanted: A New Humanism...
...exemption of college and university compliance would clearly darken the future of women's athletics. More important, it would hurt the colleges and universities these women attend. Schools would be denying all students the right to compete as a school representative. John P. Reardon Jr. '60, director of athletics, said last week that if Title IX does exempt intercollegiate athletics. Harvard plans to encourage the wealthy programs for men to help women's sports, to continue to develop women's athletics here and to allocate athletic department money to women when compliance becomes necessary...
Boston does not make the kind of music that moves writers to darken the page with excerpted lyrics that snake through the columns like trenches. Scholz himself admits, "I never thought I was too good with lyrics," and the results of his struggles are at best serviceable ("And it gets harder every day for me/ To hide behind this dream you see/ A man I'll never be"). It's the music that is, well, if not wholly memorable, at least for the moment unique...
...will be able to strike a bargain of reconciliation and compromise; perhaps the economy will improve, and event which would certainly moderate political divisions and tensions. But Frenchmen are all too aware of the potential dangers that lie ahead. As the mood of impending crisis began to spread and darken last week, the newspaper "Le Figaro" counseled courage and moderation: "Let us stop hating and stop being afraid."But one must wonder, given the current political atmosphere, whether the French are willing, or able, to follow this advice...
...could further darken the already bleak academic job market for new Ph. D.s, make it more difficult for universities to renew their faculties with younger academics, especially minorities and women, and add a new burden to university finances, they said...