Word: chagrined
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...couple of these letter express chagrin at Pachter's accusations of director Beth Heller's "racist casting." This kind of response to this kind of statement is understandable, even laudable. But Pachter never makes this accusation. He instead writes that the two Black, non-chorus players were given "degrading roles for Black actors to play." Actress Lenore Jones was given the role of Mama, whom Pachter calls "sick and lecherous," and actor Tym Tombar was given the role of Amos, whom Pachter calls "simple, subservient, and constantly humiliated by his white, adulterous wife...
...room for Bruno. That doesn't matter. Bruno will end up crashing in Joe's common room, much to the chagrin of Joe, his roommate and the 67 other good ol' buddies sprawled on the Revolutionary Front floor...
...idle. In the diplomatic residences of the fashionable Al- Mansur neighborhood, ambassadors and attaches debate the options for Saddam and the U.S.: almost all are bad, and most end in grief or horror. Among Westerners, there is some gallows humor. Among ordinary Iraqis, it seems, there is acceptance, chagrin, forlorn hope or simple noncomprehension...
Much to the chagrin of the Likud party and Israel's representatives in Washington, the changing attitudes of American Jews are showing up in recent polling. A study of 780 American Jewish leaders released this year by the Israel-Diaspora Institute found overwhelming opposition to the most fundamental Israeli (read Likud) policies of recent years. The most surprising conclusion: 74% of the leaders approve of private discussions between Israeli officials and moderate leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...16th century Chinese comic novel Journey to the West, a motley group of pilgrims, at the end of a magical, sometimes terrifying quest, arrive at the Western Paradise of Buddha to receive sacred books imparting enlightenment. To their chagrin, they discover that in order to secure their prize, they must grease the palms of Buddha's disciples. Buddha himself is rather condescending. Paradise has turned out to be less than perfect and more than a little disconcerting. What was it they set out to find, and why is it yet to be found? Even as their numbers and their influence...