Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formal creation." The chapter, "An Extended Orient: Exoticism" criticizes at length the borrowing of imagery by the French as sheer indulgence. Gautier's Avatar is dismissed as the work of an exploitive dilettante with a "strikingly apparent gift for painting generalized pictures." Similarly, Hugo's Orientales is dismissed as "meager picturesque Orient imposed upon Montparnasse landscape...
...time hockey school like Boston University, it is not unusual for 3,500 rabid fans to show up at a varsity ice hockey game. But last week the B.U. Terriers played the University of Lowell (Mass.) Chiefs before a meager crowd of 28 reporters and college officials. The reason: rubeola, or measles. Because the disease had already struck 55 undergraduates, university officials & barred students from attending all sporting events. They also canceled plays and lectures to prevent further spread of the contagion...
...much less disappointing, since they fell out of the running much earlier in the meet. While the Elis edged out the Tigers, 68-67. Harvard finished a distant third with a meager...
...disturbing reports of Ethiopian air force planes strafing refugee columns and bombing villages. As makeshift relief camps sprang up and swelled with alarming rapidity on the Sudanese side of the border, yet another specter began to haunt Africa: the threat that the exodus of starving people would overwhelm the meager resources of Sudan, whose population of 21 million already has been increased by 600,000 Ethiopian refugees. Sudan, after all, is also beleaguered by Africa's great drought...
...years ago, both the Harvard men's and women's track squads were the cream of the Ivy League. The men won the Heptagonal Championship by eight points, while the women lost the title by a meager two points...