Word: woefulness
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...current plight of journalism in the capital has been the subject of a great deal of woeful discourse, as many talented reporters have been reduced to signing on with a publisher who doubles as a brain-washer of impressionable youth...
WHEN HARVARD'S Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) got itself into new trouble this summer, one longtime opponent of the plant thought he had the ideal solution for the woeful diesel facility. Recalling the conversion of a grundgy Cambridge garage several years ago into a spiffy shopping mall known as "The Garage at Harvard Square," he suggested MATEP be converted into a consumer's palace, perhaps by the name of "The Power Plant at Mission Hill...
DIED. Raymond ("Buddy") Parker, 68, mild-mannered former Detroit Lions head coach who transformed a woeful, second-division football team into a gridiron juggernaut, winning the national championship in 1952 and 1953; of complications from a ruptured ulcer; in Kaufman, Texas. Parker is credited with the development of the two-minute drill, a predetermined series of plays used near the end of a half or a game...
Here is George Orwell, resembling "Don Quixote, very lean and egotistic and honest and foolish; a veritable Knight of the Woeful Countenance ... A kind of dry egotism has burnt him out." Here is Winston Churchill in retirement, "a curious mixture of cunning and animality" pathetically exhibiting an old Boer War poster advertising ?25 for his capture: "It's more than they would offer...
...Shove It. The trio were done up as the Mandrake Sisters (read Mandrel! Sisters) for Bob Hope's All-Star Comedy Look at the New Season-It's Still Free and Well Worth It, to be aired on NBC later this month. Though the three woeful crooners belted out the number in a style that will surely have audiences panting for less, Hope was quite taken with Olsen's falsetto solo. "I was afraid to sing so high," says the comedian. "But he's big enough to get away with...