Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mixed. The university chaplain, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., regards glossolalia as a genuine religious experience and as a natural way for students to gain "emotional release" from the tensions of college life. Another New Haven cleric rejects the phenomenon as "a gentlemanly fad." Students mostly take a dim view. "My grandmother had her Ouija board," says one. "My mother had her Bridey Murphy. Now they have this. It's all the same to me." The glossolalists expect skepticism, and respond with a rueful joke: "Maybe this is what St. Paul means by being fools for Christ...
...deeply appreciate the fact that TIME refuses to be intimidated by the Kennedy dynasty's vehement disapproval of all news media that dare to dim the supposed "shining Kennedy image" with the actual, tarnished facts...
...after the cabarets have closed and before department stores open. Rats with affluent tastes gorge themselves on such fancy groceries as melons, leather furniture and mink coats. One gormandizing rat pack even held up construction of a new building by chewing through a strong box and gobbling the blueprints; dim Ginza bars have regular, unscheduled blackouts whenever rats gnaw through power lines, a never-failing taste treat. When a U.S. tourist was assured by the manager of a luxurious Ginza hotel that he couldn't possibly have seen a rat "as big as a cat" in his room...
...works out in their relations with Hilda, who is not just another dim blonde, but America herself. She has the "egg-smooth non-face of America," a soap-opera vocabulary ("I have no me inside"), and she is a tease: "I want you to want me though I have no intention of satisfying you." Finally, neither husband nor lover is the father of her unborn child; the real father, a former husband, died a few minutes after the conception. She stepped over his body and left the scene. In other words, she is "The Enemy" (of U.S. man), and identified...
Going into the season, wrestling prospects were the "same as last year" when the varsity tied for fifth in a field of seven. First division hopes seemed especially dim since the Crimson had never finished higher than fourth in seven solid years of trying...