Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time is the Depression, and these bouts are appropriately called pickup matches. They are not staged in rings but on barges, in factories or ware houses, anywhere working men are likely to wager a few bucks of their meager paychecks. Hard Times is a first feature by Walter Hill, who used to be solely a screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles...
This time, at least, the award appears to be less for political balance than for literary merit. Although Montale's output is meager-five volumes in 50 years-he is greatly valued by connoisseurs. Stephen Spender considers him Italy's greatest living poet, and the academy cited Montale's pessimistic but "indelible feeling for the value of life and the dignity of mankind." Part of this admiration undoubtedly stems from Montale's mastery of the doom-filled Eliotic metaphor ("All our life and all its labors spent/ Are like a man upon a journey sent/ Along...
...City Mack (John Amos) and his boys, who feel they got bilked and want to work the same ploy on a rival gambler named Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). Now this is not a movie with jokes to spare. By the time Poitier and Cosby have rerun their plot, the meager supply has been totally exhausted. So has the audience...
...long time Harvard was content in its few meager athletic offerings, adding piecemeal additions across the river in order to compete successfully on the intercollegiate level. But the last few years have brought a boom in women's athletics on campus, and federal government legislatgon requiring equal facilities for both sexes. These pressures, plus a recreational sports program that keeps tripling in the number of users, and a lack of access to athletic facilities for another slighted group, graduate students, all made the need for new facilities one of the University's more desperate imperatives...
...single Austrian libertarian is a member of the tenured faculty in the Harvard Economics department despite the Austrians' basic scholarly challenge. There are really no tenured Chicago conservatives either, unless one seriously stretches the definition. Even then there are no more than two or three. Arrayed against this meager representation are 26 Harvard liberals and one Marxist...