Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schubert says, adding that he hopes to show material to the older composer for criticism and advice. "He's very helpful about that sort of thing, "Schubert says. "Not that many people are willing to take the time to listen to people--that's partially why there's a dearth of good musical theater on Broadway right...
There is no dearth of plans for both short-and long-range reform. Experts have exhaustively debated dozens of proposals; it seems most unlikely that the Greenspan commission can come up with any new ones. What has been lacking, and is still lacking, is the political will to overcome the furious opposition that a proposed change in Social Security inevitably arouses...
Like almost every Broadway musical this season, "Nine" suffers from a dearth of feeling, a kind of aseptic hole in the heart. "Nine" is a case of a spectacle without a subject. This time, the clothes have no emperor. Like a shell game, this musical teases the eye without stimulating a smidgen of affectional concern. Admittedly, these are extremely pretty shells to watch: the splendiferous costumes of William Ivey Long; the 21-count 'em-21 girls, many of them leggy thoroughbreds; Scenic Designer Lawrence Miller's seductively panoramic view of Venice...
...constant retrain running through discussions of Radcliffe offerings is the dearth of publicity they receive and the relatively low level of use they therefore enjoy from Radcliffe under graduates. Radcliffe "assumes a base level of awareness that most people don't have," says Yvonne L. Jones '85 a Radcliffe intern. While the Schlesinger library houses a nationally eminent collection on women's history, library director Patricia King admits that "it's hard to acquaint undergraduates with the factn that it exists." Ann Co1by, director of the Murrey Center says that while some undergraduates regularly use the facility most undergraduates "Just...
...removal of the shackles of federal regulation thus fails to place that step in the context of the President's frontal attack on equal access to education. That in itself suggests, certain ironies. The dean, for instance, rightly continues to blame the lack of minority professors here on the dearth of minorities who have attended graduate schools. His solution is for universities like Harvard to encourage young minority group members to enroll in graduate schools. But the President's own package of policies--from aid cuts to looser federal regulations--would actively discourage such enrollment. Already those cuts have taken...