Word: dismalness
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...glance: Stevens played a significant role in bringing up Cornell’s dismal numbers after a 2-4 Ivy start, including a 61-58 defeat against Harvard at Lavietes...
...last to toil in the pre-rehabbed hell of 14 Plympton St. Because we were the What?—and hence scoffed at by the newshound bosses—and because The Crimson was tight on space, the three of us were exiled to the most dismal sub-sub-basement, a cave at the bitter end of the cellar, past the presses and the half-tone machine. Our putrid little home glistened with slime-mold, reeked of ink, photo chemicals, and rot, and was cluttered with mysterious tin buckets sloshing with murky green chemicals. The stink would make...
...will our cultural obsession with images and their consumption take us? Jennifer Egan’s Look At Me is a kind of fable for our times, examining the excesses of the present and positing a possible vision of the not-so-distant future. Her conclusion is dismal: At our current rate, the juggernaut of American mass culture will inexorably crush all that stands in its path...
...Believe,” Spears’ producers have her perform an aesthetically repulsive half-talking, half-singing sound. Somewhere between a growl and a croak, her voice is entirely disjointed from her young girl image. More than anything else, her muttering style is the single most dismal artistic failure on the album...
Even if the White House is scoffing at the news and analysts are clamoring that the difficulties are nearly over, Harvard seniors have known about the state of economic affairs and the country’s dismal future for weeks—months, even. Judy Murray, recruiting director at the Office of Career Services (OCS), kindly warned us of our extraordinary troubles back in the month of September. And, as evidenced by this fall’s recruiting performance, her prophecy has proven to be categorically correct: there is simply less money to spend, and far fewer jobs to offer...