Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss to traditionally hapless MIT set the tone for a season laden with solid efforts, but not much to show for them. Only a last-minute goal by junior Tommy Castro, giving the booters a 1-0 win in the The Yale Game, salvaged a dismal year...
...from the apartheid economy is perhaps the most arcane of all. South Africa, fearing the obvious consequences of foreign capital "heading for the exit," has evolved numerous laws and regulations designed to frustrate such moves; this is to be expected. But it does not require much training in the "dismal science" to realize that the more South Africa restricts the right of foreign investors to manage and dispose of their assets, the less attractive investment in that country becomes. To restrict unreasonably the freedom of investors to repatriate the profits of their existing operations constitutes expropriation and de facto nationalization...
...Chekhov, whose Three Sisters appeared earlier this semester at the Loeb. The imprint of Chekhov's style is apparent in Shaw's reliance on dialogue, rather than physical action or plot development, to express characterization and the atmosphere of pre-war England. But while the Loeb production evoked a dismal and saturnine mood, emphasizing the tragedy in Chekhov's tragicomic style, this version of Heartbreak House is too delightful a farce to be subdued by Shaw's satire of social mores...
...opera; this year's Flying Dutchman is a travesty, fusing roles and entirely subverting the opera's dramatic and musical content. In its casts, too, the Met's standards fluctuate widely. It's a long way down from the near-ideal Parsifal of this spring to the dismal Norma playing at the same time...
...Harvard varsity linksters bounced back from last Saturday's dismal loss to Princeton and Yale with a runaway victory over MIT and Bates yesterday at the windswept Brae Burn Country Club in Newton...