Word: dismalness
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...detected no overriding tide of opinion for the impeachment of the President. Ford had even declared, wishfully perhaps, that "the corner has been turned," and Nixon was regaining popularity. Fresh opinion polls quickly challenged that optimistic assumption. A Louis Harris Survey indicated that Operation Candor had been a dismal flop. Despite it, Nixon had skidded to a low point in popularity: only 30% of the public found his job performance acceptable. More significant, for the first time a plurality, 47% to 42%, agreed that he should resign. A Gallup poll also showed Nixon slipping again; his approval rating fell...
...Cost-of-living escalator clauses in labor contracts and the Social Security Act could keep incomes ahead of price boosts. Even so, the more economists try to be realistic in talking about the depressing prospects for unemployment and inflation, the more they look once again like practitioners of the dismal science...
...legal profession that has, however belatedly and at first by a narrow edge, finally become most aroused about the transgressions against law and the Constitution that make up the dismal scandal. While the profession has moved forcefully through such men as Sirica, Cox and Richardson to acquit itself, it is still on trial, and whether justice will finally prevail is still in doubt...
While bankers and manufacturers, truck drivers and jet pilots understand that Nixon did not bring on the Arab oil embargo, they also understand that the leadership in the energy crisis has been dismal to nonexistent until now. Ironically, nobody has insisted on presidential sovereignty in crisis management more than Nixon. He will reap the credit-and the blame. -Then there are the Republican Senators and Congressmen who are up for re-election next fall. Many of them are far more frightened and pessimistic about their own chances than they were even a month ago. Suddenly it has been discerned that...
FAILING SCHOOLS. The schools, on the whole, seem to be serving middle-class children well. But in the inner cities, the all too familiar results are dismal. Explains Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who has made a study of the "children of poverty": "Many ghetto schoolteachers will tell you, if you interview them directly, that they see little hope for their pupils. Why, then, make a herculean effort? These children will be leaving school anyway, with little future ahead of them. What a contrast to the warmth and hopefulness of the teacher in the middle-class suburb!" Most schools, says Ron Edmonds...