Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night visitor to the Leverett Courtyard is no longer blinded by 150 watt spotlights burning into the yellow curtains. No longer does he see the insipid bright and-dark checkerboard of old; the visitor of today is greeted by a varied pattern of bright, dark, and dim. If this pleases the visitor, he may be startled by the sight of peering, bleary-eyed Leverett Men emerging from the Towers...
...very beginning. In those days, everyone knew that the business of any college was to rear Puritan divines. This purposeful age vanished, however with the Unitarian Coup, and ever since Harvard has been adrift on a secular sea, stirred vaguely, as great corporate bodies are, by forgotten impression and dim, ancient impulses from its past, like parietal regulations...
Winging off to Paris in a cloud of dustups, TV's Jack Paar still could not understand why the folks back home took so dim a view of his Berlin border antics...
...Jewish culture. Three Yiddish journals were banned; a Yiddish publishing house was closed; four Yiddish theaters went by the boards; 450 Yiddish writers, painters, actors and musicians were slaughtered. Only a pallid, two-page newspaper published twice a week in remote Birobidzhan on the Manchurian border kept the dim flame from guttering out. Last week that flame got its first fuel in 13 years as 25,000 copies of a new bimonthly Yiddish literary magazine, Sovietish Heimland (Soviet Homeland), came off the presses in Moscow...
...wine to the servants in "a quantity congruous for Christians of base extraction." The baron invites them to lap up casks of vintage Vaiano. When the baron goes off to war, Ippolita, with Balzacian parsimony, delightedly returns to her beans and mush, pawns her fine dresses and lights one dim lamp of an evening...