Word: dismalness
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Zitarelli's Ivy record for the season plummeted to a dismal 1-5. Her overall career record before the season's Ivy opener had been...
...shadow of this legacy that Summers will enter office, and it is against Rudenstine’s dismal record that he will be judged. With the living wage campaign having successfully put the spotlight on dialogue, Summers’ willingness to talk may make or break his administration...
...same time, the council must withdraw its support for the Ivy Council immediately. For years the council has dedicated its financial support and personal efforts to the Ivy Council while reaping returns that are dismal at best. Time and again, Ivy Council meetings have proven to be an unproductive waste of resources—at a three-day meeting in New York in 1999, Ivy Council members engaged in only three hours of meetings on tangible issues of student life. Indeed, the most well-known idea generated by the Ivy Council was the failed Census 2000 of Fentrice D. Driskell...
...PSLM activist would likely respond that Harvard’s low-level employees lack the skills necessary to get better jobs, meaning that their choice to work for Harvard isn’t really voluntary. But the problem with this response is that it offers a positively dismal assessment of people’s ability to improve themselves. To uphold PSLM’s position, it isn’t enough to say that low-level employees are currently unable to command higher wages. Instead, we have to say that they will never be able to do so?...
...want to survive, you got to be tough.” Both characters are lost souls in a world that doesn’t seem to have room for them. Yet, by seeking comfort in one another’s presence, they eventually find hope in an otherwise dismal life. After much arguing between them, and after many bitter monologues, the two seem ready to accept the fact that although neither of them are perfect, they both need each other. The play ends on a relatively positive note as they both contemplate the wonder of the ocean, indicating a kind...