Word: dimmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bogdanovich has not approached since. Its long climactic scene, involving a schizophrenic sniper picking off the patrons of a drive-in theater, was made with the kind of virtuosity that promised an audacious new director. With each subsequent film, the memory of Targets-as well as its promise-grows dimmer...
...Nebraska, both of which passed it last year, are reconsidering their decisions. In short, the momentum of the amendment has been stopped, and it now seems dubious whether the 38 ratifications can be won this year. If the issue drags on into 1974, the prospects may become even dimmer...
...hour, Nixon overturned these expectations and very probably accomplished an enduring the change in American judicial history. In Assistant Attorney General WIlliam H. Rehnquist and Richmond Lawyer Lewis F. Powell Jr., the President appointed men who confirm to his standards of "judicial conservatism." Yet, especially in comparison with the dimmer talents that he had been considering, Rehnquist and Powell possess sufficient legal distinction to still most professional criticism and make their Senate confirmation seem probably...
Greer paints a bleaker picture of women's consciousness than we have become accustomed to. Several times she asserts that women prefer male doctors, which-at least in this community-is blatantly false. And her view of female friendships is dimmer than reality. "Those women who boast of their love for their own sex," she asserts, "usually have curious relations with it, intimate to the most extraordinary degree but disloyal, unreliable and tension-ridden, however close and longstanding they may be." Perhaps in her situation it's true, but for most of us here, the pattern has changed...
...rebels, have always preached non-violence?have now turned to violent and bizarre methods? Or is it possible that the Government has drawn monstrous conclusions from flimsy evidence, perhaps taking protesters' idle speculations with total solemnity? The first could help rekindle the fires of protest that have seemed dimmer lately and also revive lingering fear and hate of radicals. The second could again put in question the Government's responsibility and fairness in dealing with dissent and stir new talk of "repression...