Word: dismalness
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...ruined Yale's bid for an undefeated season and turned an otherwise dismal 1979 Harvard campaign into a bacchanalian celebration. More than 72,000 fans--the largest Bowl crowd since 1954--streamed onto the field here two seconds before the final gun, mobbing the Harvard players and wreaking havoc in otherwise boring New Haven...
Regarding student practice of the creative arts at Harvard, the less said the better. Apart from the very competent student orchestras who provide an audible museum of long-dead and mostly romantic composers, the picture is dismal. I attended a number of undergraduate theatricals and they were all terrible. The Lampoon and the Advocate are significantly worse than even most English university papers (and they are pretty bad!). Journalism on the other hand, which requires a mentality antithetical to that of the creative artist, flourishes. The Carpenter Center has made a noble attempt to get the visual arts...
...Harvard's second-and third-line players finished out the win in comfortable style. THE NOTEBOOK: After the game, Restic and Crimson captain Mike Brown presented the game ball to Penn coach Harry Gamble, in honor of his team's spirited fight down to the wire despite its dismal record and huge deficit...
...agents have become not spies but "bureaucrats." Frank Barnett of the National Strategy Information Center, a hawkish think tank, warned of a "Soviet window of opportunity" in the 1980s. Ray Cline, a former top CIA officer who now directs strategic and international studies at Georgetown University, offered a dismal report card on his old outfit: D- in covert activities, C- in counterintelligence, C- in information gathering. It is all very depressing to the OSS alumni...
What with the plot being so linear and the characters being so flat, there is nothing to hold one's attention except the sad reflection that the late .Robert Shaw (who plays the general, and whose last movie this is) spent too much of his career on such dismal efforts, as did Di rector Robson (The Champion), who has also died since principal photography was completed. Also present are Lee Mar vin, Linda Evans and Joe Namath, who wears cowboy getup to play a CIA type...