Word: glumness
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...teacher's side. For example, Ph.D. theses have been written on such topics as Service in the High School Cafeteria, Student Posture and Public School Plumbing. But many studies are hard on teacher morale. Sociologist James S. Coleman's celebrated 1966 survey of pupil achievement seemed glum news for teachers. That study argued that family background made almost all the difference, and that qualities of schools and teachers, good and bad, accounted "for only a small fraction of differences in pupil achievement." Later researchers, examining Coleman's work, found that pupils do seem to learn more when...
...film contains a rather guarded performance by Alan Bates as Diaghilev and an ill-considered one by Leslie Browne, the young ballerina in Director Ross's The Turning Point. She is here both glum and insipid as she pursues not an ambition but a man. A young dancer from the American Ballet Theater, George de la Pena, acts the part of Nijinsky quite effectively. There is a certain ineluctable spirit about him. But of his dancing, strangely, nothing at all can be said: Ross never permits him to per form a complete sequence of a ballet. In one instance...
...primary, the President himself scrapped the politicking and plunged into an anti-inflation brain-storming session. From 6 p.m. to 8:15 p.m., Carter, along with Chief Domestic Adviser Stuart Eizenstat, Budget Director James Mclntyre, Chief Economic Adviser Schultze, Energy Secretary Charles Duncan and Treasury Secretary Miller, reviewed the glum news and options in the Treaty Room of the White House...
President Carter's Council of Economic Advisers had its own glum set of figures on the Caracas spinoff: consumer prices will climb by 1% more than they would otherwise have during 1980, and some 250,000 more workers will lose jobs. U.S. economic output will be shaved by some $17 billion, while $10 billion will be added to the nation's balance of payments deficit...
...those games that might have turned a season around with a dramatic win in hostile territory. Instead, it was a glum conclusion to the first road trip of the year. Harvard's record falls to 1-3; Fordham tallies its first win after two losses...