Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...After a dismal period in New York, when he could neither find work nor write poems, Princeton came to the rescue. Critic R.P. Blackmur offered a temporary post teaching creative writing. He advised the couple: "Make yourselves invaluable, and they won't be able to let you go." They tried, and were let go anyhow. But a combination of grants, fellowships, publishers' advances and occasional teaching kept the Berrymans in Princeton for nearly ten years. She left...
MICHIGAN. Friends said that he was simply exhausted after nearly 14 years of trying to arrest the disintegration of his state's automobile-oriented economy. William Milliken, 60, admitted that Michigan's dismal fiscal condition influenced his decision to "run for cover" instead of for office this year, despite pleas from G.O.P. leaders to stay on. Said he: "Michigan's economic problems in these extraordinary times are too serious to have a Governor preoccupied with months of campaigning." Perhaps the worst of those problems is the state's unemployment rate, at 15% the nation...
...That dismal prospect was central to a political drama that began two weeks ago. Senate Republican leaders met with Administration officials to cobble together some kind of budget for fiscal 1983 that would produce overall federal deficits less gaping than those foreseeable under President Reagan's initial proposals. They agreed on a resolution calling for, among other things, $40 billion in "savings" to be taken out of the $568 billion in Social Security expenditures now expected over the next three fiscal years. The $40 billion represents about the amount by which Social Security benefit payments are expected to exceed...
Even the country's main opposition groups, despite their criticism of the ruling junta's internal policies and dismal economic performance, have strongly backed the leadership on this issue. Explained Air Force Chaplain Father Roque Manuel Puyelli, who spent three weeks on the occupied islands: "The Argentine people are certain about this war and what it means. Only two days before the invasion everybody could sense the dissension within the country, problems with the working classes. After the invasion, all the other problems went back behind the curtain, a long way away." Not surprisingly, government officials have been...
Despite its dismal performance, the Crimson will not have to return right away to the rigors of academic. Harvard faces Ohio University, the loser in yesterday's game against Penn State in a consolation round this morning...