Word: dismalness
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...example, Zbigniew Brzezinski was in Europe last week burnishing the dismal foreign policy record of Jimmy Carter, for whom Brzezinski was National Security Adviser, and suggesting that Reagan's venture into international management so far was amateurish. The Reaganites, complained former Ambassador to Moscow Malcolm Toon not long ago, "have no foreign policy at all." His was the bluntest of many voices on that issue...
Most significantly, the Communists won only 16.2%?just a slight improvement over Marchais's dismal 15.34% in the April 26 presidential voting. Thus Mitterrand, while espousing the unity of the left, finally succeeded where his center-right predecessors had failed, reducing the Communists to a marginal role in French society. On the morning after, Marchais found himself in no position to impose any demands on the Socialist President...
Others are not as willing to believe that the school is doing what it can. Elsa Porter, a member of the school's visiting committee, calls the school's record "dismal," and Lori A. Forman, a member of the K-School Student Association, citing the school's refusal to hire a minority recruiter, argues that "the budget has constantly dictated policy rather than what was ethically or socially right...
This is why Galbraith endures, or, in the view of others, why he refuses to go away. Of course, he is an economist--possibly the most notable of his generation--but he long ago transcended the dismal circle of his colleagues. Galbraith is, above all, a student of human nature, and his memoirs are the culmination of that study. Written in the polished style for which he is reknowned, Galbraith's recollections yield an unending series of anecdotes and observations both entertaining and enlightening...
...city of Berkeley, in the days before Messrs. Jarvis and Gann' and Professor Milton Friedman made the spending of money on urban sanitation an infringement of personal liberty, was sparkling clean and covered with geraniums....Especially in the filthy snows of winter, Cambridge was a dismal contrast. Harvard's random architecture, drifting incoherently into the city, did little for one's soul. Old Harvard men are known to love it. There is no accounting for taste...