Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insensitivity" in the poetry of William Carlos Williams. Not even children's books escaped her opprobrium. After meeting E.B. White, she read a copy of his Charlotte's Web and then reported that it is "so awful." She was hardest of all on her own work. Apologizing for her meager output, she begged Moore, "Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that...
Gutierrez says Harvard has yet to take even afirst step towards admitting that ethnic studiesis a valuable intellectual pursuit. "I think thatwe have to criticize the meager response of theadministration, which is indicative of theirreluctance to do anything," he says...
...Such meager representation among the topmost brass is just one sign of the steady decline of influence among America's military academies. They have come under siege by critics who believe they cost too much and should be radically changed. The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, which is struggling to recover from a major cheating scandal, will host a discussion this month aptly titled "Service Academies: Leadership Crucibles or Magnificent Anachronisms?" All the academies are suffering from declining enrollment and struggling to develop a curriculum suitable to the post-cold war era. By doing so, however, they risk losing...
...Bosnia and drugs, sweet words mask meager policies...
...newfound fatalism. "If we pull our artillery out," said Goran Bogic, "the Muslims will overrun us in 10 minutes." In Sarajevo, Serb forces not only held to a cease-fire but also started placing some heavy weapons under U.N. control -- though U.N. troops were not even certain the meager haul of cannon had ever been emplaced around Sarajevo...