Word: chagrinned
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...critic affects the intellectual-detachment ploy. "How many political systems have come and gone since Sophocles wrote his plays?" he asks with the air of a man asking the unanswerable question. Far from swallowing his traditional cigar in chagrin, the CIA man briskly points out that only seven of Sophocles' 100 plays still exist. The rest were destroyed by the forces of war and political rivalry. With irrefutable logic, he finally gets the uncommitted aesthete to agree that "art is long-provided the barbarians don't get their hands on it." The guy can shoot...
...those heady days, Chatham's Eddy predicted a student revolution "which could sweep all higher education." But as Eddy recently reported with chagrin, "it just hasn't happened that way." Eddy cites "youth's decreasing identification with the Kennedy Administration," tracing it to "the shock and the terror" that hit collegians during last fall's Cuban crisis. Says he: "We had forgotten how good the world had been to them...
...policies of the Kennedy Administration are showing increasing disenchantment with the way the Administration is handling the economy. For months, a number of labor leaders, Democratic legislators and liberal economists have privately expressed their dissatisfaction, but their complaints are now breaking out into the open and causing the Administration chagrin and embarrassment...
...Under Secretary of State George Ball flew in to Rawalpindi last week to express chagrin over Pakistan's budding friendship with Red China, he got a quick and bitter taste of the nation's new mood. No fewer than five Chinese Communist delegations-including poets, pingpong players and trade officials-were getting the welcome treatment from Pakistani officials. Gleefully, the Pakistan press trumpeted the words of one visiting Chinese bard who wrote: "You are on the western coast of the sea and we are on the east. The tidal waves of the ocean roar, and intermingled...
...walked to the call desk and, to my chagrin, found that there was no buxom female to fumble through 10,000 cards before telling me my book wasn't in. "What's happened here?" I asked the male at the desk almost incoherently. He turned a little pale, and nodded toward a darkened, glass-walled room where "it" made its home...