Word: dismay
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...words of the Pentagon, they would rather not ask and they would rather that gays didn't tell. When confronted with the likelihood that at least some of their children, or those of relatives or close friends, will grow up gay, even liberal parents recoil in dismay. Verline Freeman, 31, a word processor in New York City, describes herself as "tolerant" and says she has gay friends. Yet she objects to her sons, 13 and 6, being taught about homosexuality in school, and has never discussed it at home. "It probably is important...
...dismay it was the....reason that got the most coverage by the media," Schreiber says "Most of the newspaper articles and wire services focused on using this molecule as a cockroach sex attractant...
...years, professors and administrators have promised to take action to demonstrate Harvard's opposition to the military's ban on homosexuals. In 1990, they declared the gay ban inconsistent with Harvard's own non-discrimination policy. As a sign of their dismay, they vowed to sever all ties with ROTC within two years if the gay ban remained in place...
When CBS executives learned of the deal, they were flabbergasted. "What are you doing?" cried affiliate chief Anthony Malara when Bevins broke the news on the phone. Malara's dismay was justified: CBS will lose important affiliates in eight cities and will have to scramble to find new stations to replace them. The options aren't very appealing. In each market, CBS could simply team up with the newly discarded Fox station. But that would mean being relegated to a UHF channel, a humiliating comedown for the No. 1-rated network. Or CBS could try to wrest away a current...
...Miller's potent script, major and subtle, has not only been captured but reinvigorated with a freshness that cannot help but echo its modern and contemporary parallels. Miller showed that Salem's witch hunts described the anatomy of McCarthyism in the late 40s and early 50s to the great dismay of his audiences. Today, instead of McCarthy's right-wing purges, an illiberal but leftist politics, sexual and otherwise, elicits similar dismay. Whatever other parallels come to mind, Travis taps into that reaction by hitting the chords that suggest witch hunting has merely taken on different forms as social codes...