Word: shoddiest
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...administration of the GSD is hoping that in a changing political climate, the Hartman case will diminish in importance until it is forgotten altogether. But it won't be, and to pretend it will can serve only to mar further the reputation of what is already Harvard's shoddiest graduate school...
...shoddiest things in the show is Harry Warren's music. The songs are not actively unppleasant, they just make no impression whatsoever. After the performance ends, it is quite impossible to remember more than about eight notes, and the effort involved even then seems hardly worthwhile. Director Marshall Jamison's clumsy efforts to emphasize the music by sending everybody but the soloist offstage during the important numbers hardly help to make the songs more memorable...
...week's end, even the News's own columnist, Ed McAuley, was doing some soul-searching. "Newspapers live their shoddiest hours in the time of such court trials as the [recent] paternity case...
When Wine, Women and, Song opened on Broadway last September at a $1.65 top, critics belted it as the shoddiest kind of fourbit burlesque. Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss slapped it with a court summons charging indecency. Business immediately boomed...
...oaks and hemlocks. There is also a brook, and horsemen clatter over the wooden bridge that bestrides it. A group of boys are sailing boats in a duckpond, and the birds retreat to the far end, haughtily ignoring the invasion of their domain. In such a place even the shoddiest of men take on graciousness, and old ladies forget to prattle of their favorite ailments. Young men reveal the subtle ways of Spring in just that proper tilt of the hat. And, inevitably in May, flaunting their best clothes and their best looks along the lanes, "wymmen waxeth wonder proude...