Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year in the U.S. That number is swelled by vanity presses and duplicating or mimeograph machines. Almost no one makes money in the process. New poetry volumes are not piled up by cash registers; some stores even begrudge them shelf space. Yet the situation is not as dismal as it seems. Poets continue to write, and persistent readers continue to find them. Promising new voices speak out; others fulfill earlier promises. This season offers five books that are worth tracking down...
Every cloud has a silver lining, they say, Harvard basketball this year has resembled nothing move than a black and gloomy rain cloud for the Crimson faithful, with the men's varsity playing well below expectations, the women's varsity brandishing a dismal 3-24 record, and the men's J.V. team struggling...
...NOTEBOOK Harvard shot 44 4 percent against Columbia, going eight for 14 in the first half and then cooling off to a dismal eight-for-22 in the second. Fleming's 27 point performance was his third straight over 25... Columbia's offense picked up whopping 17 assists, as the Lions moved the ball well throughout the game...
After a lackluster first half--reminiscent of most of the Crimson's recent efforts--Cornell led, 42-34. But something happened in the locker room, and the hoopsters emerged for the second half looking nothing like their dismal record would indicate, playing inspired and hustling basketball. "We just got more aggressive," a somewhat laconic Kleinfelder remarked...
...tough statements by Haig and Enders, and the latest relief measures, came as Congress was reviewing the $129 million in economic and military support that the U.S. proposes to provide El Salvador in 1982. Troubled by the Duarte government's dismal human rights record, Congress in December demanded that President Reagan certify in writing that the Salvadorans had made a "concerted, significant" effort to eliminate brutality by local security forces, and were also making "continued progress" in carrying out political and economic reforms. Congress also demanded assurances that the Salvadoran regime was making "good faith efforts" to investigate...