Word: dismalness
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Sporting high hopes, new coach, and increased numbers, the Radcliffe field hockey team scrimmages Bentley college today at Soldiers Field, and it should become a little more clear as to whether the Crimson will improve on its dismal 1-9-2 record of a year...
...hard to estimate the actual meaning of the 2.5 to 1 ratio, simply because it's impossible to tell what things would be like if the ratio were equal. But it's a safe bet to attribute the dismal history of women's organizations at Harvard in large part to the fact that women have felt too isolated and scattered to develop much of a sense of solidarity. Women in the Yard and the River Houses have complained that it's hard for them to simply meet other women and make friends, and women's groups in the Houses have...
...jobs eventually would drive wages down again. Ricardo did not think that this state of affairs was desirable?only inevitable. Nonetheless, he and Malthus earned for capitalist economics a name that it has never shaken; Thomas Carlyle had them in mind when he referred to "Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science...
...science seemed especially dismal to Karl Marx, who damned capitalism as an inhuman system in which "all that is holy is profaned." He charged that it tended to "mutilate the laborer into a fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of appendage of a machine." In The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Frederick Engels conceded that capitalism "has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together." Nonetheless, Marx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself: "Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation...
...that quality in 1945 when he made Mindszenty the highest-ranking bishop in a nation on the brink of a Communist takeover. Weeks later, Mindszenty and his bishops issued a pre-election pastoral letter urging Christians to vote against parties that used "violence and oppression." The Communists drew a dismal 17% of the vote, and when he persisted in opposition while they consolidated their power, the cardinal's fate was certain...