Word: dismalness
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...Kennedy Administration can bring about faster economic growth without inflation and without price controls or other varieties of regimentation, it will deserve the nation's gratitude and congratulations. But it may well be that after a year or two of rubbing against realities, a little of that old dismal tone will be creeping back into the new, cheerful economics...
Dreary, Desolate, Dismal. Cheerfulness about the prospects of tinkering successfully with the economy, and doing a lot more good than harm in the process, contrasts strikingly with the gloominess that tinged economics during much of its history. To the British writer Thomas Carlyle in the middle of the 19th century, the classical economics, with its stress on the iron inexorability of economic laws, seemed "dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing . . . the dismal science...
...thirty-six recommendations for improvements in the teaching of English (and almost as many reminders of the need for financial assistance). Part two discusses the nature of the national problem that is going to cost so much. Finally, pages and pages of figures, graphs and commentary tell their dismal story of the "status of English teaching today." In short, the report is arranged backwards...
...varsity was a different team after the dismal opening, scoring with a finesse that kept the spirited crowd in an uproar. Bill Beckett's goal, which opened the Harvard scoring at 5:25, drew some of the loudest cheers. Taking a face-off pass from Jim Dwinell 30 feet in front of van Gerbig, Beckett carefully sighted on the few inches of net visible between the goalie and the left post, then hit his mark...
...teased-until she goes too far. In a lecture, "Religion or Eroticism," Lydia indulges in pseudo-Freudian persiflage on all Griff's favorite hymns. "Bloody blasphemous cow," he thinks, and tells her off in strong valley language. It is a compelling story so far-both gay and dismal. But Novelist Gallic will not let Griff welsh on his Welsh-ness : she wants him to win. In the end, the stage seems set for a true marriage of mathematics and letters, in a way the readers can only hope will warm the intercultural cockles of the heart...