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...school of its recreational notoriety. Dartmouth certainly has a lot of signs prohibiting alcohol consumption in its stadium. But the clever Harvard fans managed to circumvent them, much to the chagrin of 1930's representatives...
...bureaucratic pique. American ambassadors in Moscow had been kept in sterile isolation, and the Soviet desk of the department initiated the decision to take away Dobrynin's parking privileges as a means of getting the Soviets' attention. When Dobrynin entered my office, he managed to conceal any chagrin he may have felt as a result of being treated as an ordinary mortal...
...marriage with a slimy hustler named Costa (Jean-Pierre Bacri). By 1952, when most of Entre Nous takes place, each woman is eager to escape the emotional claustrophobia of cooking the meals, chaperoning the children, counterfeiting passion as Monsieur Wrong rolls toward her in bed. To the anger and chagrin of their husbands, Lena and Madeleine find that ecstatic escape in each other's souls...
Keynesian economics, first articulated in the late 1930s, also earned its intellectual stamp of approval in Harvard seminar rooms. Forty-five years ago, a clique of young intellectuals, somewhat to the chagrin of the economics department, became the first Americans to teach the radical new subject. Within a decade many of the same men found themselves in heavy demand, as Washington espoused a then-unheard of degree of government intervention in the economy...
...officials have proposed to the Justice Department that as many as a dozen Reagan aides be given lie-detector tests. To the Administration's chagrin, the FBI request was leaked to the Washington Post last week. This left the White House with a no-win publicity problem. A parade of officials strapping on polygraphs would be a demeaning spectacle, both to voters at home and friends abroad. Any aides that balk, however, would appear to be hiding something. And should the Justice Department now turn down the FBI request and refuse to order the tests, it would smell...