Word: dismalness
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...spending hundreds of billions of dollars, perhaps trillions, with no perceptible underlying change in the strategic relations between the two countries. Before we pollute the wondrous heavens with the folly of man, surely we should put our heads together to try to find some way to avoid this dismal prospect. As common members of Homo sapiens, perhaps we can also find a way to put our heads together to address some of the urgent problems to be faced in the coming decades by the entire human race in such fields as energy, the environment, the population explosion and world hunger...
Singing her first Briinnhildes last summer in Bayreuth, she emerged as one of the dismal production's few saving graces, a Wagnerian of fiery voice and passionate temperament. At the Metropolitan Opera last week, the German soprano solidified that reputation in Tristan und Isolde, harnessing the mercurial spirit of the Irish princess to a voice of raw, almost primal urgency in a finely calibrated, carefully nuanced reading that gave flesh and blood to a mythical archetype. Says Behrens: "I want to make music in its logical context. I sing the beautiful parts as beautifully...
...answer the obvious question of low minority representation in the Faculty. Aside from spouting rhetoric on the subject (including an October report of the University's dismal percentages of tenured and minority faculty), this institution has done little to alter the alarmingly low numbers...
...while Cozza keeps a very calm outward-presense, the fall has apparently been very tough on him. "This has been a dismal season for him. It sing," says Ryan. "He's not used to these situation so it's not as if he knows how to do this...
...dismal summer of 1961, when Nikita Khrushchev was threatening Berlin, Kennedy often worried himself into a black mood. One night in his office he wondered out loud if the world would blow itself up and decided that it probably would, since all weapons ultimately had been used by man against man. Yet almost instantly he challenged himself. Maybe mankind with its new knowledge could find a way out. A short while later Kennedy invited me into the Oval Office; then he took me to the White House swimming pool. Almost before I knew what was happening he had shed...