Word: disappointingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gleefully told Ferhat Abbas: "The only victory at Melun was its failure. If you had accepted, or even if the French had made conces sions you could have accepted, the Algerian revolution would be dead. Your reaction at Melun proved your maturity. We were afraid you would disappoint us." In Manhattan Khrushchev hurried to get back on the revolutionary bandwagon, told the Algerians that only power counts, and proposed a two-stage assistance program. The first would be shipment of non-military supplies-which, to avoid provoking a general conflict, would be landed at allegedly neutral ports in Tunisia...
...disappoint to see the Bach Society let down its patron saint after serving his successor so handsomely. An ensemble of ten strings, supported by Michel Singher '62 on the harpsichord, was foiled by the virtuosic demands of the Great Man's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Intonation was faulty throughout, if not in the 'celli, than in the violins; the resultant thick texture took the edge off of Mr. Lazar's intimate and a bit over-respectful interpretation...