Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sports of the past fifty years, the public, in its haphazard fashion, has gone on supposing that Harvard and Yale were about on a level as institutions of learning," the story's writer laments. Nothing, he adds, could be further from the truth. The article appeared at the nadir of Harvard football, the team having beaten Yale in only one of their previous ten contests...
...marriage of the Jewish couple from Philadelphia reaches its pathetic nadir as Braudy realizes that her husband, too, is having an affair. And so arises "the great unanswerable question. How come only Susan can have a new romance in her life?" Braudy asks why a woman can so easily drift to another man, yet find it so hard to accept her partner's similar involvement. This question is followed by another, equally perturbing one, "Why do women define themselves as failures without a man?" Although Braudy poses many questions, for the most part she leaves them unanswered. Because...
...carried away by technology, gimmicks, and easy immature sentiment. It had ceased to come from the heart and instead had evolved into a battle of who could outweird whom. (You may remember that Sergeant Pepper's was followed by Satanic Majesties Request, replete with 3-D cover, undoubtedly the nadir of the Stones' career...
...painful for a Monty Python fan like myself to continue describing the nadir of its enorts. When only a couple of the group's albums were available and the first TV shows went on the American air, it seemed as if the group's standards were pretty high. Now even the dregs are being shown on TV. distributed to movie theaters, put on new records, and even printed in books (incidentally, these books--Monty Python's Big Red Book and Papperbok--are not abysmal but contain only a few new things, and these items are really only likely to amuse...
America is now at its nadir, but we did not realize that even with your Watergate experience you could once more plumb such depths of mendacity and such hypocrisy. James Alexander Rentoul Howard Norman Oxford, England...