Word: dispiritedness
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Mel Hocker, one of the alltime great American nudists, is still out there in the nude. But he is not smiling and carefree, the way you would imagine a nudist to be. At 60, Mel sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn. Forlorn...
Hardly anybody had ever heard of the Stuttgart Ballet-a small dance com pany paid for out of public funds to supply divertissements occasionally interspersed in operas-until the Württem-berg State Theater director, Walter Erich Schäfer, had the insight to hire John Cranko and give...
As he prepared to leave the White House staff for a teaching post at Harvard, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was brooding about the morale and the reputation of the Nixon Administration. Somehow, Moynihan thought, the President and his men were dispirited, and sometimes almost half believed their worst press notices-about...
Certainly, decisions will have to be made, and someone will be left out in the cold. And unless Harvard's new coach gives these problems a hard look, he could end up with a dispirited team. A bit of diplomacy, though, and the Ivy title should come easily.
Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," which officially opened the Loeb Drama Center on Saturday evening, is a long, ambiguous, dispirited play that professionals can hardly cope with. It is, I suspect, outside the range of amateurs. Although they can and do go through the motions of telling a story with...