Word: regret
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Hans loses out, of course, but not until Ustinov has worked some of the most quixotic flimflam in recent fiction. Characters deliver speeches that are fluent and often funny but almost never credible. What The Loser leaves behind is a sense of regret that so many nice touches have been wasted, so much comic flair dissipated in a search for what is obviously a serious statement about war, its terrors and follies...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, said he was not surprised that "the vagaries of Christmas Day" had made inroads into his lecture course. But expressed regret that his Wednesday Phil 1 lecture might be heard by few students...
...Some Regret Decision...
Inquiry from any one of us in the University Health Services would have elicited these facts. I regret the erosion of confidence in the University Health Services that is caused by one-sided presentation of events such as this, as well as an earlier one that was reported in your columns. Our physicians happen to be conscientious thoughtful men and women who are desirous of serving the Harvard community to the best of their ability, and so far I have not found them wanting. The inconveniences of our present physical facilities are painfully apparent to all of us; that...
...Eaves) is a conservative, tradition-minded Democrat who passed the bar exam at 19 after "reading law" in the office of a family friend, won his court appointment in 1951. In his handful of segregation cases, Rives has invariably decided for liberalism, but not always without a twinge of regret: in April, he upheld a ruling of District Court Judge Frank Johnson Jr. that Montgomery could not segregate its public parks, but noted that the decision was a Pyrrhic one for the Negro plaintiffs since the city was sure to close the parks rather than obey (it did). Last year...