Word: dismalness
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...case, then it is incumbent on Bok to exercise some moral leadership and turn the tide around. This is, as much as anything else, a question of morality and of a commitment to social equality. In an institution where liberal principle are preached so freely, there has been a dismal failure of its leaders to face up to their moral obligations on this central social issue...
...situation of New York's Franklin National Bank, until recently the nation's 20th largest, has looked dismal ever since a gray day in May. Then the bank announced that instead of the $582,000 profit it had originally reported for the first quarter, it might have suffered a loss of as much as $39 million because of unauthorized trading in foreign currency by employees (TIME, May 27). Last week the picture suddenly turned $24.6 million worse. The bank reported losses of a numbing $63.6 million for this year's first five months: $40 million...
...case, then it is incumbent on Bok to exercise some moral leadership and turn the tide around. This is, as much as anything else, a question of morality and of a commitment to social equality. In an institution where liberal principles are preached so freely, there has been a dismal failure of its leaders to face up to their moral obligations on this central social issue...
...administration such as Nixon's, where crass corruption has cut so deep, any modicum of integrity can seem to be admirable. Against the dismal background of Watergate, the refusal of Elliot L. Richardson '41 last October to fire former Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 appeared a welcome relief. But Richardson's minimal act, clearly also an act of political necessity, did not erase his earlier record. Nor did his supposed act of conscience remedy the vicious policies of which Watergate was the dramatic consequence--policies Richardson helped implement as Secretary of Defense and earlier as Secretary of Health, Education...
...movie features the usual Morrissey crew: harpies, fag hags, neuters and no-talents clutter up the screen and pop out of it in 3D, which is two more dimensions than they would provide without technological assistance. The prevailing notion is a retooling of Mary Shelley, en cumbered with dismal sex and heaping portions of grue. Limbs, entrails and corpses come whizzing over the heads of the audience, along with various bats and other creatures of horror fiction. As so often with Morrissey, the joke wears thin fast, destroyed by its own spareness of invention and crudity of spirit. The novelty...