Word: dismalness
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...prep school, a collector of modern art, the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of a life-insurance company, later a director of the Bank of England, married to a ballerina, John Maynard Keynes--tall, charming and self-confident--nonetheless transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social progress...
...shading add even more to the somber quality of this painting. What is the man thinking about? What is troubling him? The portrait seemed almost intensely private, as if the viewer was intruding on the man's personal agonies and demons. Despite all this, the painting itself was not dismal or depressing but extremely reflective, piquing the viewer's curiosity. Mixco's piece was further enhanced by the fact that it was sitting on an easel in a corner of the exhibit and therefore had a private space of its own. Because of the easel, the painting seemed still very...
...shading add even more to the somber quality of this painting. What is the man thinking about? What is troubling him? The portrait seemed almost intensely private, as if the viewer was intruding on the man's personal agonies and demons. Despite all this, the painting itself was not dismal or depressing but extremely reflective, piquing the viewer's curiosity. Mixco's piece was further enhanced by the fact that it was sitting on an easel in a corner of the exhibit and therefore had a private space of its own. Because of the easel, the painting seemed still very...
...event, Harvard has been given a golden opportunity to redeem itself from its dismal 0-8-1 start to the season. This weekend, the Crimson needs to focus on the magic number three to advance...
...what's wrong with real estate? Plenty. Anyone who sunk money into publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, has been scorched badly. Last year the average REIT stock sank 17% while the Standard & Poor's 500 soared 27%, and REITs' dismal showing has extended into early 1999. Never have REITs lagged the market by such a wide margin. They're more out of favor than a home with peeling paint and shag carpets...