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IVANOV is the first of the Chekhovian unheroic heroes, who fall not from grace to sin but from enthusiasm to ennui, who do not so much lose their souls as their spirit. John Gielgud's listless acting and direction unfortunately seem infected with a similar malaise...
Instead of finding the kind of teacher who seeks what Harvard College Dean John Monro calls "a mind-to-mind confrontation" with students, undergraduates often stare across 30 rows of seats at a listless scholar reading from his own textbook and begrudging the time spent away from his esoteric research. In smaller classes, students are likely to meet some harassed teaching assistant absorbed in his specialized graduate studies, sometimes not even teaching in his own sphere of knowledge. "We have sought out ability with football quarterbacks, we are beginning to do it with executives and musicians, but we haven...
Despite the apparently exuberant health of the U.S. economy, one of the nation's biggest industries-housing-is growing sicker week by week. It is pinched three ways: by listless demand, tight money and climbing construction costs. In February, the annual rate of private-housing starts slumped to a three-year low of 1,318,000, or 12% below the lackluster 1965 level. The Federal Reserve Board estimates that the slide grew even worse in March...
Both teams just went through the motions in a listless third period. Harvard had become frustrated by Brown's impenetrable collapsing defense, led by All-American Gaudreau, and only Jack Garrity came close to scoring three Brown penalties...
After trudging through a listless first half yesterday, the Harvard freshman soccer squad came alive in the last two periods to slip past rugged Andover...