Word: dismalness
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Although they call themselves hapless--a label from last season's dismal performances--the breaststroke squad looked anything but as sophomore Gwen Knapp and freshman Geralyn White went 1-2 in the 100 breast with times of 1:15.36 and 1:16.85. Knapp also finished second behind Kim in the 50 with a time...
...resulted in a cynicism towards men and marriage, about which she writes, "...falling in love is a risk. You might marry. No one should seek to navigate the rocky shoals of matrimony these days without first consulting prayerfully with a lawyer, an accountant, and an analyst." This distrust and dismal view of men is on of The Girl I left Behind's greatest flaws. In her tendency to blame them alone for society's ills, O'Reilly fulfills the caricature of the man-hating, strident feminist. Although her personal and statistical evidence of discrimination and sexism render her anger justifiable...
...that her generation--a transitional one brought up on the myths of stable marriages and clean kitchens--is suffering the worst confusion. Reflecting on her path, O'Reilly affirms, "Of course I was happy being a feminist. After all, consider the alternatives." And she paints a most dismal and starkly honest picture of those alternatives...
...after a dismal start to his freshman year at Harvard, he thought about the Stanford offer more than once. Away from his large family (six brothers and sisters) for the first time, he says it was a "big adjustment period." Add to the transcontinental move a truncated freshman football season (two of six games were cancelled) and what seemed like "30 straight days of rain," and Woolway says he was "pretty unhappy." "I had never even used an umbrella before," the Angeleno laughs...
...least by musical comedy standards--more flesh-and-blood. Though his singing sometimes weak, Sellon's performance has a weet subtlety and his flexible, loose-limbed body enlivens Sara Roy's bouncy but bland choreography. Sellon, through charm and verve, survives one of the show's most dismal moments--an inane dream sequence in which Cocky slays a rag-doll dragon for his white-clad maiden (Belle Linda' Halpern) whom Robert Swerdlow's fair-to-middling lighting design strikes at most unflattering angles...