Word: direly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some churchmen, depressed by the decline of monastic vocations, fear that life on Mount Athos is not likely to last for another 100 years, much less a thousand. The monks themselves are unimpressed-possibly because the same dire predictions were made back in the 19th century, when the mountain's monastic population was about a thousand. Mount Athos has always had an astonishing capacity for survival...
...Anne Bancroft is more often the folksy Bronx matriarch than the flinty earth mother. Straining for Brechtian detachment, Director Jerome Robbins achieves a kind of laconic toughness in which the actors hold back, rather than banish, their tears. This misses Brecht's sense of the dire human predicament too deep for tears. Brecht tended to use sex for comic relief, but Barbara Harris' sly burlesque of a prostitute is the wrong kind of funny for this play. Eric Bentley's translation is fluently colloquial if occasionally a shade too matter-of-fact for a playwright...
Clients pay Willmark from $21 to $750 monthly per store for its services and its many pamphlets, which offer inspirational selling tips to employees and dire cautions to management. Though a sign on every cash register warns salespeople that Willmark is apt to prowl the store at any time, employees seldom spot the professional shoppers. Willmark hires only "ordinary-looking people," bans flashy blondes or conspicuous Don Juans. Its shoppers earn only $60 a week and expenses, but the job is much sought after, since it involves the pleasure of being paid to buy anything from expensive whisky to diamonds...
Similarly, only a few weeks ago Kennedy had been issuing dire warnings of economic recession if his tax program was not accepted by Congress. Now. at his press conference, he said: "We don't believe that there will be a recession this year." What were the prospects for his program? Said he: "I plan to get the tax cut." Later, while in Chicago on a trip to dedicate the city's new O'Hare International Airport, he grimly insisted that action must be taken to reverse the nation's unemployment trend, but he ended...
...will hamper the performance of superior students on the remainder of the examination. On this last point he seems to ignore the possibility that the superior student might recognize the defective question for what it is skip it, and forget about it. All we hear from him is that dire consequences will necessarily befall the student "who loses confidence" in either the integrity or the intelligence of his tester...