Word: dismalness
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...good, but he's very true. Deckard is a product of his society, and it is a society with which we can readily identify. Director Ridley Scott presents a very bleak landscape for his depiction of Los Angeles in the 21 St century. The stark buildings, neon signs, and dismal rain paint the picture of a world without any connection to human emotion or morality. It is a world which could easily be ours...
Communist nations have fared no better than free-market ones. In the Soviet Union, where factories are increasingly outdated, annual growth has slowed to less than 2%, in contrast with 4.8% only five years earlier. After a third consecutive dismal harvest, the Soviets this year will have to import a record 44 million tons of grain. The Soviets' East European satellites have run up $60 billion in debt to Western governments and banks, including $25 billion owed by Poland alone...
Except for Bonnie, Herrin had no close friends at Yale. His academic record was dismal. Yet former classmates, faculty members and, particularly, the university's Roman Catholic community rallied immediately to his side with a $30,000 defense fund and all the influence they could bring to bear. New Yorker Jack : Litman, a stellar attorney, was hired to ' provide a defense. His case ultimately de| pended on Psychiatrist John Train, another brilliant performer on the criminal circuit, who argued that Herrin was suffering from both severe mental disease that impaired his ability to realize what le was doing...
...After a dismal period in New York, when he could neither find work nor write poems, Princeton came to the rescue. Critic R.P. Blackmur offered a temporary post teaching creative writing. He advised the couple: "Make yourselves invaluable, and they won't be able to let you go." They tried, and were let go anyhow. But a combination of grants, fellowships, publishers' advances and occasional teaching kept the Berrymans in Princeton for nearly ten years. She left...
MICHIGAN. Friends said that he was simply exhausted after nearly 14 years of trying to arrest the disintegration of his state's automobile-oriented economy. William Milliken, 60, admitted that Michigan's dismal fiscal condition influenced his decision to "run for cover" instead of for office this year, despite pleas from G.O.P. leaders to stay on. Said he: "Michigan's economic problems in these extraordinary times are too serious to have a Governor preoccupied with months of campaigning." Perhaps the worst of those problems is the state's unemployment rate, at 15% the nation...