Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps chastened by this experience, the class of 1969 turned from radical political activism to perennial political futility, in the person of Allard K. "Help-Me-With-My-Campaign" Lowenstein. "What troubles me most this year is how much we've lost by not trying." "Help-Me" told the listless seniors, some of whom were also troubled by the deaths of King, Robert F. Kennedy '48 and tens of thousands of Vietnamese. "I think it's terrible to throw out a dean--I was a dean once," the once and future would-be Congressman continued...
...friendly nod to Hecht's ghost by having Hildy speak of the time "Ben Hecht was leaving for Hollywood." But neither Hecht nor MacArthur could be expected to countenance what has been done to their original. Dialogue that should crackle like a telegraph has been slowed to the listless deliberation of a traffic cop writing out a ticket. Jack Lemmon makes a curiously enervated Hildy, and Walter Matthau's Burns is a shambling cynic too similar to his Odd Couple characterization for comfort...
Harvard was rescued from veritable humiliation by the hot shooting of senior forward Arnie Needleman, who pumped in three clutch baskets down the stretch to rally the listless Crimson hoopers from a 9-point deficit...
...Listless and looking aggrieved, Mitchell repeatedly proclaimed his inability to recall events or clung to improbable semantic distinctions...
While Swenson and Griggs were tearing holes in the Lion defense, the Columbia offense was listless for the second week in a row. The Lions could accumulate just 112 total offensive yards, fumbled the ball five times, and had three passes intercepted by an alert Green secondary...