Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funeral director will agree that our main problem is not trying to sell $2,500 services (if there is such a thing) but rather to convince grief-stricken families to buy within their means and not allow sorrow or sentiment to influence them in a choice they may later regret...
...group which claims its allegiance to the free enterprise system, and as such, is cuttled to a hearing by our group. We recognize that there are dangers from within the advocates of free enterprise as well as without. An informed opinion demands a fair hearing for all. We regret that the "Liberal" Union chose this occasion to once again demonstrate its utter lack of good taste and purpose...
...community services, I regret to record here my candid opinion that only on rare occasions does the CRIMSON fulfill the obligations which arise from its unique freedoms. Two or three instances from the past 15 years come immediately to mind, and will serve as good enough measuring stick. Certainly any list must be headed by Blair Clark's campaign to do away with tutoring schools in Harvard Square. We have had also the systematization of the "Confidential Guide to Courses" and the annual critique of fields of concentration; these are taken, still, with salt, but they do their job. From...
...precisely this joy that solemn Critic Daiches misses. Readers will certainly leave his book convinced that Stevenson, as he grew older, was more interested in problems of human relationships, less absorbed in the fantasies of pure action and adventure. But they may jib at Critic Daiches' regret that Stevenson "arrived so late at the discovery of the kind of writing in which alone real greatness lies." Real greatness is not as choosy as its critics, and Stevenson's best adventure stories share a shelf with the Iliad, the Canterbury Tales, the Arabian Nights, Romeo and Juliet, Robinson Crusoe...
...Record is Clear." All week long the rush to stay clear of Henry Wallace gained momentum. in varying degrees of censure and regret, Socialist Norman Thomas, the Liberal Party's Chairman Adolf Berle Jr., the heads of the anti-Communist Americans for Democratic Action got out from under. Most of Big Labor, such leftist publications as Manhattan's PM and the Nation had already checked out. Last week a newspaper poll in the South showed that even Negro listeners who had loudly applauded Wallace as an itinerant foe of segregation (TIME, Dec. 1) would not support...