Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jolly-ups"--the Fifties version of dorm mixers--and on the enforcement of strict parietals by nosy housemothers. Weekends revolved almost exclusively around the activities of the Harvard men. Dates for the big football games were planned weeks in advance in the fall of 1955, despite the team's dismal Ivy League performance. Few remember the details, but a right end named Ted Kennedy (back at school after a year's banishment for some confusion over a certain Spanish exam) scored the only Harvard touchdown against yale that year, as the Bulldogs and the snow combined to defeat the Crimson...
This is why Galbraith endures, or, in the view of others, why he refuses to go away. Of course, he is an economist--possibly the most notable of his generation--but he long ago transcended the dismal circle of his colleagues. Galbraith is, above all, a student of human nature, and his memoirs are the culmination of that study. Written in the polished style for which he is reknowned, Galbraith's recollections yield an unending series of anecdotes and observations both entertaining and enlightening...
...city of Berkeley, in the days before Messrs. Jarvis and Gann' and Professor Milton Friedman made the spending of money on urban sanitation an infringement of personal liberty, was sparkling clean and covered with geraniums....Especially in the filthy snows of winter, Cambridge was a dismal contrast. Harvard's random architecture, drifting incoherently into the city, did little for one's soul. Old Harvard men are known to love it. There is no accounting for taste...
...jumped from 79 to 246. Last year the agency saved eleven insolvent S and Ls by ar ranging shotgun mergers with healthier institutions. These rescue operations cost the agency $1.3 billion out of its $6.5 billion reserve fund. The bal ance sheet at Economy Savings, however, was apparently so dismal that no takers could be found...
...Sands' death, the I.R.A. last week bided its time. It might have reason to avoid testing its strength openly - and risking a defeat. For example, an I.R.A. attempt to coerce Irish Republic shopkeepers into closing down for a national day of mourning for Sands ended as a dismal failure...