Word: dismay
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Friends at other colleges have asked me to describe my greatest disappointment at Harvard. To their suprise (and dismay), it is not the lack of contact with big name professors. (I actually had lunch with Galbraith three years ago). For me, the greatest disappointment has been the facility with which some students dismiss others, the degree to which convenience regulates relationships for so many people here. What disturbs me most, though, is when I see myself doing the same...
...required by the network to cancel or delay some of their most profitable local programming. In return, ABC provides spots for local commercials during Olympic programming. Even before the boycott announcement, some stations were having trouble selling those spots. So it was not surprising that a mood of dismay swept the ballroom of the Century Plaza Hotel when the affiliates heard ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings announce the word from Moscow. Said Arledge: "It's a disappointment. There are certain events that it would be very good to have them [the Soviets] in. But it is not as devastating...
Finally, I wish to express my dismay that such a biased piece survived the editing process. The May I issue of your paper lists one "News Editor" and two "Night Editors." Did none of them think to read the story and correct it before printing it? Or have these editors seen so many references to alleged "procedural arguments" in the stories written by the reporter in question that they have come to accept allegation as fact...
...Administration's Central American policy, and deeply worried about where that policy is leading, the Senate passed by a landslide vote of 84 to 12 a nonbinding resolution demanding that no U.S. money be used to mine Nicaraguan waters. Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater voiced his colleagues' anger and dismay in an astonishingly pungent letter to CIA Director William Casey. Said Mr. Conservative: "I am pissed off ... The President has asked us to back his foreign policy. Bill, how can we back his foreign policy when we don't know what the hell he is doing? Lebanon, yes, we all knew...
Many Americans seem to feel dismay over the whole breakup and are irritated by changes that are mainly small but still inconvenient. Says retired Salesman Jack Reiss, 83, of Harrisburg, Pa.: "I don't know why they broke up Ma Bell, but I wish they would put it back together." Concurs Larry Mixon, district manager for Southern Bell in Florida: "Human beings don't like change. They have a problem adjusting...