Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Turnout for each of the summer's programs ran as high as 40 people, though some attendance was "pretty sad," said member Brian Weber '84. As a result of the summer's teach-ins, about 40 people, including students from other schools, have signed up to help with this fall's programs, Rivers said...
Your opening sentences, "No one predicted it. No one can explain it," are a sad commentary on the reliability and perspicacity of the pundits who are constantly pontificating and analyzing the economy. Rabbi...
...overall quality of education almost inevitably sank. "Every generation since Roman days has decried the weakening of educational standards," sighs one Midwestern university dean, but the statistics provide sad evidence that there has been a genuine decline. Average scores in reading on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATS) have dropped from 466 out of a possible 800 in 1968 to 424 in 1981, when the decline leveled out; mathematics scores over the same period sank from 492 to 466. A study conducted at the University of Wisconsin reported that at least 20% of last year's entering freshmen "lack...
Soon we men will only be able to reminisce about lovely, soft, warm, rounded and voluptuous females. How sad...
Indeed, Montand, with his sad, weary, Bogart eyes, is best when he sings of love and melancholy, which seem, as he describes them, to be one and the same. Most audiences, moreover, will almost certainly know a bit of his history: his early romance with Edith Piaf, his brief affair with Marilyn Monroe and his long and enduring marriage to Actress Simone Signoret. Montand does not stand alone. He is surrounded by ghosts, memories and the soft, dusky glow of nostalgia...