Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is rather a thin deceit to cover the grim truth of Rosovsky's predicament, that few professors are willing to stray from their chosen academic niches. Indeed, the decline of Gen Ed in the last two decades testifies to the gradual disappearance of broad-based academicians willing to synthesize the range of material necessary to lead a survey course. The students, it seems, are not unaccompanied in their march toward specialization...
When Jimmy Carter went on television at 7 a.m., Friday, to announce the most surprising event of his presidency, his face was ashen, his mood was grim, but he was unshaken in his determination to press on to secure the release of the hostages, whose six months of captivity have left Carter and his White House aides somehow captives too. Like John Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs, Carter gamely took full blame for the rescue mission's failure. Said he: "It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. It was my decision to cancel it when problems developed...
While the President and his national security advisers went over every grim detail of the situation in the Cabinet Room, a startlingly different scene was occurring just outside on the South Lawn. Under the springtime splendor of the cherry blossoms, thousands of youngsters were enjoying the traditional Easter Monday egg rolling. The thick, lightly tinted bulletproof windows of the Cabinet Room could not block out the laughter and the sound of music...
...Giamatti would constrict it. President Bok said last week that although he acknowledges the need for a limited amount of recruiting in the Lvy League, he "would prefer none." To the admissions committee, recruiting and its concomitant problems is a fact of life; to coaches, it is a grim reality; and to athletes, it is appreciated but sometimes bothersome. And although the University is still compiling statistics to determine whether the current policy has improved the applicant pool and Harvard's athletic success, recruiting is clearly here to stay, at least for a while...
...recall of Calvin does not mean remorse among the Genevans. The city, despite its placid lakeshore site, is a grim spot enlivened mainly by nocturnal vices: gambling, drinking, whoring. In one notorious district there is a tavern for every three dwellings. Though he cherishes his own ration of wine (teetotaling comes later in Protestant history), the cleric inveighs against every excess. He condemns dancing as a prelude to fornication and finds Genevan feasting obscenely luxurious. (Among the new ordinances he demands is one limiting banquets to three courses of a mere four plates each...