Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years at Harvard before the war, and nobody complained. Fritz Crisler and Benny Oosterbaan use the single wing at Michigan and have collected three straight conference titles. Art Valpey used the single wing last year, won four games, and nobody squawked. Yet now after Harvard has had a dismal season, everybody thinks the single wing is no good...
Orthodox psychoanalysis and religion, says Kristol, will never agree on truth. The issue between them is simple and clear-cut. Religion asserts "that the understanding of psychoanalysis is only a dismal, sophisticated misunderstanding, that human reason is inferior to divine reason, that the very existence of psychoanalysis is a symptom of gross spiritual distress . . . Psychoanalysis, religion might say, comes not to remove insanity, but to inaugurate...
...Dismal Grownups. From New York, Nehru went to Boston, visited Harvard, M.I.T. and Wellesley, where 1,700 college girls gave him a cheery reception. He wished, he told them, that he did not have to make so many speeches in the U.S. "Grownup people like myself," he said, "grow more & more dismal, talking dismal subjects...
Paper World. Prior to this happy time, there had been the dismal Age of the Digest (mentioned with good-natured scorn), in which the effort of the intellectuals was to reduce knowledge to capsule form, and in which lectures and articles were turned out in a wild spirit of competition in almost inconceivable numbers, until the emptiness of a world built of paper brought on a collapse...
...Lions, losing would not only break the jinx which has hexed Columbia for 72 years but might also lead to a rather dismal season. For Harvard coming up to Cornell with a one and one record would be a pleasanter, and more likely, prospect...