Word: dismalness
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...summers past, I have sporadically tried to tackle the heavies of literature, with limited success. The most notable occasion came after my first year at Harvard, when I was living in the Jordan Co-op and reading Moby Dick (a dismal combination). It took me about two months to read, in which time I also re-read The Great Gatsby and plowed through endless fashion magazines to avoid sloshing in the tracks of the white whale. Although I'm an American history and literature concentrator, I have as yet evaded a re-reading of Melville's tome (sacrilege in many...
...spite, under the one that he or she is about to sit in. Again, not something that any normal person would want to do. But as a troubled man once said, there's the rub, for although this plan does wonders when it works, its moments of failure are dismal. But that no longer belongs in this overly-long parenthetical...
...good. Yet its rating for the arts was a dismal 20 out of 100--and that was before the city's symphony orchestra declared bankruptcy three weeks...
...Yankee Primary day, the turnout in the precincts around Harvard was a dismal five to seven percent...
Overall, the Patriots had a dismal 2-12 record under head coach Clive Rush and ended the season at Harvard by losing to the Minnesota Vikings by a score...