Word: dismalness
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...CRIMSON's perpetual bias towards SDS news stories and anti-Administration editorials is by now no surprise to anyone who reads the paper regularly. I know with dismal certainty that each issue I see will contain the same proportion of radical rhetoric on every page...
...most dismal case of Three Thirty Three's skimpiness is the Sports section. It includes but two articles-a routine description of the football season and a confusing skiing story. There are two pages of fine crew pictures, two pages of dull wrestling pictures, two pages of out-of-focus winter track pictures. Nothing at all on the nation's best squash team and only a short paragraph on the Olympic crew.Whoever wrote cutlines for the four pages of hockey pictures couldn't spell Ron Mark's name and probably couldn't tell a fore-check from a slap shot...
...limiting their entertaining to small dinner parties at their 140-year-old farmhouse in nearby Arlington. He drives a five-year-old Volkswagen. His avocations are painting and sculpture. He has done bas-reliefs for some of his friends, and tried-without success -to put some life into the dismal school of official portraiture that fills the corridors of his courthouse. Judge Burger is also something of a gourmet. He sometimes runs his wife out of the kitchen in order to experiment with an elaborate recipe a la Julia Child, and he is a connoisseur of wines-particularly the better...
...evening early this month Gilligan talked with a small group at Quincy House about obstacles to political reform--and to reform candidates. He made no sweeping statements about the decline of democracy, but his remarks did suggest that electoral politics has become the dismal science. And in a painfully true truism, he also admitted that money talks. "I would have taken the financial aspect much more seriously if I had it to do over again," Gilligan reflected wryly. "I thought the money would always turn up somewhere once the campaign began to roll. It didn't. We had to close...
...with a version of lacrosse which is played with five-man teams, and thus a league of about four teams could be set up with games twice a week. These are just in the thought process right now, but it's good that someone cares enough to change the dismal situation. Much will depend on the team's eagerness, but such a plan will certainly pay dividends, especially since the squad will not have to start from scratch in the spring...