Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Americans returned to Carter's suite, Vance gave what one U.S. participant called "a very dismal" report. Carter was due to leave Israel that evening, and some of his bags had already been put into a guarded van outside the hotel. Judging that it was already too late to leave that day, however, the President decided to remain overnight and invite Begin to a farewell breakfast Tuesday morning. He would then fly to Cairo for a one-hour courtesy stop at the airport to brief Sadat. For four hours Monday evening, while Carter's plans remained uncertain...
...performances of two shows, the juxtaposition of which offered a considerable insight into the pros and cons of Harvard theater. Both shows had full houses, both audiences reacted with a display of much approval--yet it was clear that one was a phenomenal theatrical success, the other a dismal failure. The two shows in question were Ellington at Eight on the Loeb mainstage, and Out of the Reach of Children at Kirkland House: there were many flaws of an obvious kind in both shows--the rare ability of the Ellington singers to sing just off-key and just too quiet...
With the dramatic announcement, the White House mood brightened enormously. Aides who had been depressed and subdued by a long series of dismal domestic developments and international setbacks began joking and bantering as they became caught up in the hectic preparations for Carter's departure. The President himself looked more jovial...
PRESIDENT BOK WOULD have us believe that human civilization is still in the Dark Ages. The portrait of Harvard he paints in Friday's open letter on "the ethical responsibilities of the university in society" is a dismal flash-back to medieval times, when colleges were walled fortresses, isolated from society. Bok would have us spring to the battlements, caldrons of boiling oil at the ready, whenever society's political turmoil and moral conflicts approach the gates...
Carnegie II offers a dismal diagnosis. But as any responsible doctor would tell you when he recommends radical surgery, it's best to get a second opinion...