Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First off, Stevenson went to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and a meeting of the New York County Lawyers' Association to paint, in terms of his "greatest anxiety," the dismal picture of the "City of the World." The U.S., said he, would have to work harder on defense, expand foreign aid. But it could by no means back out on any of its welfare programs, e.g., "education, slum clearance, health, social security." Guns plus butter, Stevenson admitted, would "take a lot of money." How could it be done? And what about inflation? Quipped Adlai Stevenson: "Well, that...
...incident marks one of the few victories for the English during the dismal opening months of the war, and it makes an exciting story. Unfortunately, the new English film which describes the death of the Graf Spee fritters away most of the excitement. It is an unfocused, chaotic motion picture which makes clear only that the German ship sank...
...characters have ambiguous attitudes toward sex, money and class. The title story, A Bit Off the Map, is the personal narrative of Kennie, one of the loose-jawed, tight-jeaned set known in London as Teddy boys, who falls in with a crew of intellectuals. They are dismal London versions of Greenwich Village nihilists-a sort of intellectual Jimson weed that sprouted amid the unfilled bomb craters of postwar London. Says Reg, a novelist: "We'll light such a blaze that all their nice little civilised fire engines won't be able...
...portion of the College will be further deprived of one of the most valuable parts of a Harvard education. Considering that tutorial was originally instituted for virtually all undergraduates, and that at one time it was predicted that tutorial would soon replace formal courses, such a proposal is a dismal illustration of the decline of tutorial...
...peace was wonderful for Republicans, it was dismal for Democrats. Just before Knight's move, Democratic Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown had announced his candidacy for governor, betting heavily on the fact of a Republican-splitting Knight-Knowland contest. His bet lost, Brown complained of a "cynical deal engineered by a reactionary darling hell-bent for the White House." But Pat Brown, described by a friend as "a great big Teddy bear who doesn't want to grow claws," has never shown any liking for a knockdown drag-out fight. And that was the only kind...