Word: dismay
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Because of their freight of dismay, White's doomsday sketches are rarely as effective as, his verse. He greets spring in New York ("Pigeon, sing Cuccu!") and rags an author about a fatuous book on farming with a review writ ten in rhymed couplets. Using mock heroic stanzas and plenty of relish he relates how a Chesapeake Bay snowstorm turned back a submarine specially equipped for polar exploration, captained by an explorer who had sold his story to a publisher before even setting out. An almost perfect example of occasional verse is "I Paint What I See." It pits...
...Southern California division of the Polish-American Congress. "But he didn't go far enough." Still, even the ethnic Poles recognized, as did many other Americans, that for now about all Washington could do to protest the repression in Poland was brandish symbols of anger and dismay. "It is better than doing nothing, but not much," said Zygmunt Kolicki, a construction worker from Union City, N.J. "But it is only a gesture. At this point, all America can do is gesture...
...budget, the first version of which is due to be submitted next month, is already under way. Stockman has been urging draconian cuts in domestic programs, perhaps so Reagan can later ask for lesser, though still hefty, reductions without seeming hardhearted. Cabinet officials have begun to declare their dismay publicly and most are taking their protests to the President instead of acquiescing to Stockman's demands. Congress also is almost certain to balk. Says Joseph McDade of Pennsylvania, a savvy Republican on the House Appropriations Committee: "We'll not see a repeat next year of what...
...move against Solidarity caused shock and dismay throughout the West. In Washington, President Reagan was kept closely informed of the Polish situation throughout the weekend. In Brussels, Secretary of State Alexander Haig hastily put off a planned trip to Israel. He said the U.S. and its European partners were "surprised" by the ominous developments in Poland. "We're watching very carefully," he said. "And we are consulting with our concerned allies here on the Continent." In a direct warning to the Soviets, Haig said, "It would be hard to call the West guilty of interference. And we have increasingly...
...SHARE the majority's dismay at recent curtailments of civil liberties in Poland. I, too, deplore the attempt to bust the free trade union Solidarity and support international talks on the Polish crisis. But I cannot support the majority's call for economic sanctions against the Soviet Union. Any punitive action directed toward the Soviet Union will not improve the situation in Poland, nor will it bring about hoped-for changes in Soviet policies around the world. Soviet oppression, like that of the U.S., cannot be stopped by an embargo or a trade cutback...