Word: dismaying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sheer Monkery. Much to his parents' dismay, Luther kept the vow, two weeks later entered the Augustinian priory at Erfurt. Luther was a pious cleric. "I kept the rule so strictly," he recalled years later, "that I may say that if ever a monk got to Heaven by his sheer monkery it was I. If I had kept on any longer, I should have killed myself with vigils, prayers, reading and other work...
...Brooks tackled the problem of relations with Ecuadorians by displaying an enthusiasm and a patience that can only astound--or dismay--other Vounteers. On their first day in town they politely demurred at the suggestion that they rent a spacious balcony apartment in town and instead set up house in a beach front dwelling of bricksand bamboo, located two miles away. The choice amazed local fishermen. "But only poor people live here," said one, unable to comprehend why gringos chose to reside in his barrio...
...dismay with the government will, perhaps, be difficult to dispel. Yet the Institute, with free rein to invite just about anyone in government and to set up just about any kind of program it wants, is in a unique position to try. One effort perhaps should be to invite as honorary associates young and imaginative newcomers to the federal and state governments -- officials like Senator Mark O. Hatfield, or Mitchell Sviridoff of New York City's anti-poverty program -- who can give students an idea of the possibilities and excitement of politics and public service. The Institute could also...
...happens is strictly not for laughs. Beclch clouts a small boy to death in the anguished presence of the child's mother. She decapitates a young goat, and gnaws on the animal's entrails with her lips dripping blood. All this is meant to confound, amaze, and dismay, to dramatize the central dictum of Antonin Artaud, the French pioneer of this type of theater who said: "Everything that acts is a cruelty...
...scraped their feet, giggled and whispered lovingly (Stockhausen confesses that he was in love when he wrote the piece). One musician poked a gong with drumsticks while another "played" the organ with the palms and backs of his hands. Stockhausen declared that Momente was still unfinished and, to the dismay of some listeners in the audience, added that "some day it will be played all evening...