Word: dismay
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Fair enough, but Hartke is not a vivid enough central figure so that his dismay illuminates the wreckage. Too much about him seems random, taken without calculation from the parts bin. Why, for instance, has the author named him after Eugene V. Debs, the great U.S. socialist? Merely, or so it appears, because Vonnegut likes the contrast of Debs' nobility ("While there is a lower class I am in it . . . while there is a soul in prison I am not free") with the grubby hopelessness of Hartke's world. And what about that college for dyslectics? Is dyslexia a sign...
Abortion-rights supporters expressed unease with Monday's development, just days after anti-abortion activists showed dismay that Souter had been on the board of a New Hampshire hospital and at a meeting when it voted to allow abortions at the facility...
...Minnesotans may demand more of a man they voted to high office than a simple act of contrition and a refund. Bill Morris, former chairman of the state's Independent-Republican party, summed up the dismay: "I think Minnesota now has 1 1/2 Senators . . . I think most of us voted for him to serve millions -- not make them." Some G.O.P. officials are urging Durenberger to step down by July 31 so that a special election could be held in November. Durenberger could then seek a vote of confidence by running in that race...
...have heard to my dismay that the Harvard faculty has voted to remove military programs from campus unless the services begin to commission homosexual officers...
This month Little, Brown will publish Khrushchev on Khrushchev, by Nikita's son Sergei, 55, an engineer in Moscow. This intimate portrait shows the deposed leader in his last years watching with dismay as his reforms are overturned. Now his son offers the most detailed and authoritative account to date of how the "special pensioner" was able to conduct his own defiant experiment in glasnost -- and why he had decided to brave the anger of his former comrades...