Word: dismally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another harrier who may do significantly better today than he has recently is sophomore Mark Connolly, who had a particularly dismal day against Penn but who has had a good week of practice...
Stalag Diaries. After one dismal lunch of rice with rice, the newsmen formed a committee to help run the hotel. Heading the committee was Michael Adams, a former Middle East correspondent for the Guardian who now heads a pro-Arab lobby in London and who was in Amman to negotiate the release of the hijack hostages. Adams drew on his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany to organize the correspondents. Though they included some major byliners from the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and other countries, they set about cleaning toilets and performing other menial chores. Los Angeles Timesman...
Game Plan at Half Time. In a paper prepared for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, Arthur Okun, Gardner Ackley and Walter Heller, all former Chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers, predicted that the auto increase could make "dismal reading" out of October price figures. Even that paper, however, conceded that inflation "at last shows signs of ebbing." The business slowdown engineered by the Nixon Administration has clearly wrung much excess demand out of the economy...
...encouraging thing about this season is that it will be an improvement, as opposed to the attitude with which Harvard was forced to approach the dismal 1969 season after the magic of 1968; there was simply nowhere to go but down, despite all the returning lettermen...
...portrayed throughout as spoiled, selfish, loveless and unloving brats. There are a couple of cursory attempts to explain young people's interest in drugs (Mommy takes lots of pills, Daddy is a booze hound), but they all smack of smug rationalization. In the midst of all these dismal goings on are several fine actors yelling to get out. Wallach is brutal and forceful as the father; Hal Holbrook, playing a next-door neighbor, is remarkably moving against overwhelming odds; and the young actors-Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Don Scardino-are a talented crew. The best of The People Next...