Word: dismalness
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...expects of Wayne and Hepburn. The tremulous self-awareness that has marred some of her recent performances is entirely absent here, and she is the tough-minded, high-spirited Kate of blessed memory. And the Duke, too, is his old self-the slackness engendered by a succession of dismal late films banished. In short, they are good for each other and fun to watch...
After a financially dismal season last year, there was talk that the HRO was going to resort to gimmicky and war-horsey programming in order to insure filled houses. But although for the first time in many years they won't be able to afford a big-name soloist, their programs remain uncompromised and varied, posing a continuing series of worthwhile challenges to this excellent orchestra...
Koopmans, a Dutch-born American at Yale University, and Kantorovich, of Moscow's Institute for Management of the People's Economy, were honored for developing "linear programming" or "activity analysis," techniques that are part of the computerization of the "dismal science." They enable capitalists and commissars alike to make the most efficient use of workers, machines and raw materials, and to determine how fast production should grow...
Today is the first day of the rest of the Harvard football team's life. The new lease on life is provided each year at this time in the form of the opening of the Ivy League season against Columbia. A dismal loss to B.U. last Saturday notwithstanding, the Crimson warriors today open up their defense of the Ivy crown at Soldiers Field...
...Southeastern Mass Corsairs will come sailing into Soldier's Field today to tackle a newly revamped Radcliffe field hockey fleet. Last year the Cliffe stickwomen sunk to the depths of Davy Jones's locker with a dismal 1-9-2 slate, but this year under the helm of first year skipper, Debi Field, a new crew and much enthusiasm, the squad is looking to reverse that record...