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Ingalls Rink has always been a house of dearth for Harvard. In its last eight games at Ingalls, the Crimson...
...negative ads and dearth of big issues also prompted a lot of people to sit this one out. According to Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, this year's turnout was the lowest since 1942 for a midterm election -- 37.3% of eligible voters -- and the third lowest in history. "This was the most ugly and vacuous campaign in recent memory," says he, "and the public responded accordingly...
Some CAST members say that there is a dearth of roles for Black actors in campus productions, citing a problem which many minority actors face in Hollywood. Unless the script specifically calls for Black characters--like Shakespeare's Othello or Alex Haley's Roots--Blacks usually aren't cast into plays. That's why Black CAST was created in the 1960s, says Sams, who calls the organization an "alternative drama experience...
High-spirited partiers faced a dearth of trash containers, and the result was unsightly trash surrounding drunken carousers...
...another) are a little ticked off at being picked on by the press as odd, for theirs is no more odd than a gathering of philatelists. They desire a sober and evenhanded report for once, and so, as far as this department is concerned, they shall have it. The dearth of seriousness in the lines that preceded these is regretfully noted, and the clerk is instructed to strike them from the record...