Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very-dim shadows, of course, there is always Dean Rosovsky, who has proven himself perfectly willing to move administrators who don't fulfill the role he expects of them. Whitlock describes Rosovsky's experimentation with administrative personnel as similar to a civil service model, under which career administrators are moved around until they find a place that fits their capabilities. In addition, Rosovsky's conviction that administrators should be moved around so they don't get stale adds a sense of impermanency to any stage of University Hall's organization--Arthurs, for example, now holds her third title in four...
...problem is that despite its title, the book is much more an English gothic romance than a mystery. Gwenda, a dim young woman orphaned as a toddler and brought up by relatives in New Zealand, arrives back in Britain with her new husband, Giles. No sooner have they bought a nice house in the town of Dillmouth than Gwenda starts getting attacks of déjà vu and is clutched by a nameless dread while descending the stairs. It is soon clear to the reader, and eventually even to dim Gwenda, that she has been here before. Just...
...villain in Sleeping Murder is not nearly so enterprising. About all Miss Marple has to do is to keep her dogged young friends from pursuing their own dim-witted plans. What is comforting about the book is Miss Marple's presence and the fact that the author could not bring herself to do her character...
...podium carried a rousing ring of enthusiasm. Speaking with unaccustomed fervor and a punchy delivery, the President effectively assailed, by biting implication, his Democratic opponent, Jimmy Carter. "We will build on performance, not promises; experience, not expediency; real progress instead of mysterious plans to be revealed in some dim and distant future." At another point he jabbed: "My record is one of specifics, not smiles...
...Dim-crass...