Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certain objections may occur to the reader. The Irish are a pretty dismal lot, to hear Joyce tell it, and Faulkner's hunting story doubles on its tracks even more than necessary to follow a slow-footed beast. It is no longer news that Russians (then or now) have trouble getting overcoats, and rich characters who keep predatory birds about the house are perhaps a bit too special to care much about. However, the reader will also sense that in all six stories something more important than bears, hawks and overcoats is being talked about. His feelings may focus...
...Wilde's works, the comedies stand up best (The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance). It is still impossible not to smile when Wilde seizes upon some normally dismal aspect of human relations and translates it faithfully and accurately into the language of comedy. It is this most-human humor that is Wilde's greatest gift to English literature. Much as he loved to pretend that he was too detached an artist to have "sympathies," every word he wrote shows that he was much too softhearted (and not really intelligent enough) to possess the large...
...stockbrokers to abide by SEC laws when peddling stocks in the U.S.; if they failed to do so, they would be subject to extradition and trial in U.S. courts. Last week Chairman O. E. Lennox of the Canadian commission announced that Ontario had dropped the deal as "a dismal failure...
...preaching practice. Billy began at a Tampa mission for derelicts, drunks and dope addicts. His first church sermon came on Easter evening in 1938, and was a dismal flop. But Billy went on practicing -mostly exhorting the fish and alligators of a nearby swamp to leave their evil ways and be saved. He preached his first real revival at the Baptist Church of East Palatka, Fla. in June 1939. Halfway through the week-long series, word spread that Preacher Graham, nominally a Presbyterian, had never been immersed. One look at the shocked and sour faces before him and Billy...
...fortune and a famous thoroughbred stable at 38, "Lucky" Dewar hit the headlines in 1931 when his horse Cameronian won the first two legs (the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket, the Epsom Derby) on Britain's Triple Crown, missed pulling off a rare coup when Cameronian ran a dismal last in the St. Leger...