Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PUBLIC LAVORATORIES are generally dim, grimy places with wet cement floors and grimy white porcelain. Either that, or they are new and shiny with gleaming chrome faucets, row on row. In an effort to make such places interesting, since they were already necessary, grafitti were invented. There, in a cold, impersonal chrome-and-steel world is one man's mark upon the wall, a blow against the empire: JUAN LOVES MARIA, forever and ever...
Like most Loeb productions, Mary Stuart is technically impressive--from the simple, stylized sets to Elizabeth's jewel-encrusted costumes to the eloquent lighting. The final scene--Elizabeth's last hurrah--is superbly staged: the lights dim on each of the queen's advisers as they leave her one by one, until she sits alone, framed by a spotlight on her proud, lonely face. The effect is magnificent...
Martin, a former Jesuit professor and religion editor of The National Review, also takes a dim view of any deviation from orthodox Catholicism. The French theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who tried to rationalize evolution and scientific discovery with Christianity, is attacked for contributing in a roundabout way to the possession of two priests because of his potentially heretical views. All of the hero figures in the book--the exorcists--are not intellectuals; they are middle-aged plodders from rural backgrounds, deeply rooted in god, country and Church...
...Reagan's strategists saw their candidate's early lead slipping. The Reagan campaign strategy of coasting on momentum gained in the early primaries has proved to be an utter failure, with Ford's narrow victory in New Hampshire and solid win in Florida. The future of Ronald Reagan looks dim...
...case involving clerical and technical workers at Columbia University's off-campus research facilities--which seems in many respects to contradict the January ruling on the District 65 case by NLRB regional director Joseph Fuchs--organizers feel the chances that the Washington board will accept the case are increasingly dim. Harvard, they say, will never lose before the NLRB: its influence is too great; its statements and opinions are regarded as beyond reproach...