Word: dismalness
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...evokes the thematic center of Wedekind's play: the awesome power of dawning libido. And Courtney Vance is universally excellent in all four of his roles, but particularly in the end, as the Man in a Mask, the Great Father who has come to save Melchior and his dismal world...
...annual level of 1.5 million, but the increase stemmed largely from new construction on federally subsidized apartments that builders had to get under way before Sept. 30, when the Government closed the books on its fiscal year. For the first nine months of the year, housing starts lagged a dismal 32% behind...
...bombed the service comedy into oblivion, Hollywood has chosen not only to revive the genre but to add an insipidly trendy twist by making the first supposedly feminist service comedy. Imagine a cross between Gomer Pyle, USMC and An Unmarried Woman. The result is Private Benjamin, a relentlessly stupid, dismal little movie...
...openers, the Crimson expected to win. Cornell arrived with a 2-6 record, including several dismal performances recently. The stickwomen, who proved against New Hampshire two weeks ago that they could play with anyone, owned a 3-3-1 mark and, after an embarrassing foray to Penn last Saturday, wanted to bounce back with their first...
Watching departments dump colleague after colleague can't help but demoralize junior faculty members, despite their foreknowledge that Harvard's assistant/associate-professor road leads nowhere. While departments are generally honest with their junior faculty members about the dismal chances for promotion, it's only natural for scholars to hope that they are the exception--and to be disappointed or even bitter when they...