Word: dismalness
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...Harvard golfers, buffeted by both the wind and the weak competition, finished a dismal third to Salem State and Southeastern Massachusetts University in a match yesterday at Salem Country Club. The squad managed to edge Gordon College by several strokes...
...article does accurately present the dismal and unfortunate situation that confronted last year's ministry. Without a doubt, the Cardinal's abrupt dismissal of an entire campus ministry team was an alienating act which "undermined confidence in ecclesiastical administration." The author also accurately protrays the team itself; it did emphasize political and social activism to a greater extent than the present ministry. However, the incriminating tone of the remainder of the article has gravely disturbed us, the elected representatives of the Catholic student community...
...Accounting. Had the Lockheed scandal not surfaced, this dismal performance might have gone unnoticed. Traditionally the top managers of state-owned corporations have formed a sottogoverno (subgovernment) that runs their enterprises with so little supervision that they do not even bother to keep the public or the official government up to date on what they are doing. Earlier this month, for example, the giant Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (I.R.I.), which controls 15% of all Italian industry, got around to releasing its consolidated balance sheet-for 1974. If the manager of a state-owned enterprise blundered, the government would quietly come...
Inexperience is the cause of the dismal season the Crimson batmen are having, coach Loyal Park and captain Barry Cronin said yesterday...
Marnie. Since we don't have anything good to say about Marnie we'll let noted Hitchcock authority Robin Wood speak for it. He calls this dismal work "one of Hitchcock's richest, most full achieved and mature masterpieces." There is, it seems, no accounting for taste--after all, Stanley Cavell believes that L'Atalante is one of the greatest films ever made and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences thinks that Milos Forman is a better director than Robert Altman. So go know...