Word: dismall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 25,000 of the traumatized Chinese have descended on the sleepy West Borneo port of Pontianak, where they live in dismal squalor. The Chinese are crammed into makeshift quarters, bathe in muddy, sewage-filled canals and wander aimlessly along the waterfront, many of them without homes or hope. Pontianak's Communist propagandists could easily use these displaced Chinese as a breeding ground for more unrest and tension...
...housewife music (Mantovani, Perry Como) and the insufferable boring call-us-up-and-talk-about-it shows. A handful of FM stations play classical music regularly, but it still remains difficult to find good folk music or jazz--even on the FM band. The one noble exception to the dismal norm is the Educational outlet, WGBH-FM. But even WGBH confines itself to classical music, and information-education programs. In the field of musical entertainment there hasn't been a fresh creative idea on Boston's commercial radio scene in the last decade...
...varsity wrestling team could manage only two decisions Saturday as it fell to Franklin and Marshall, 21-12, for a dismal beginning to its new season...
Other observers take a more dismal view. They feel that CNCV's one-project at a time approach has helped hold the organization together. As McCarthy supporters and more radical community organizers go separate ways within the organization, conflicts of interest and/or allocation of resources might arise. These conflicts might ultimately split CNCV into quarreling factions reminiscent of last summer's National Conference of New Politics...
HENRY, SWEET HENRY lured theatergoers into picking up $400,000 worth of tickets in advance of its opening. These venture-capitalists have a dismal evening in store for them. The musical concerns itself with a pair of schoolgirls who spend off-hours spying on a concert-stage idol (Don Ameche). When he is not pounding the keyboard, he dallies with suburban and urban matrons. The music is tuneless, the lyrics witless, and the dances could pass for mass hopscotch...