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...Hello," says Phyllis McGinley Hayden. A pause. "Yes, this is she." Another pause. "Well, I just got out of the bathtub and I haven't any clothes on . . . Oh!" With this exclamation, in which delight and dismay mingle, she cups her hand over the speaker and shouts into the hall...
Most student complaints involve dissatisfaction with the open clinic operation; there are complaints of long waits, and diagnoses that vary with the doctor one sees each time--perhaps several different one in the course of a single week. Continual dismay with the clinic arrangement, on the part of both patients and doctors, led to an intensive campaign last year to establish an appointment system. A flyer distributed in Holyoke Center urges students, faculty, and employees to "choose your own doctor" and "whenever possible make an appointment to see him. In other words use these to see him. In other words...
...after a week's wondering, I am conscience-bound to refuse your courteous invitation . . . Although I am very enthusiastic about most of your domestic legislation and intentions, I nevertheless can only follow our present foreign policy with the greatest dismay and distrust. We are in danger of imperceptibly becoming an explosive and suddenly chauvinistic nation, and we may even be drifting on our way to the last nuclear ruin...
Robert Lowell '25' visiting professor of English, Wednesday refused an invitation to participate is a White House arts festival because of "the greatest dismay and distrust" with the Johnson Administration's foreign policy...
...attended the teach-in at the University of Michigan [May 14] with more than passing interest. I was, however, dismayed to hear clichés and slogans instead of the searching discussions I had expected. During the polemics, the armband wearers bustled about with ludicrous selfimportance, contributing only rudeness and epithets to the "search for alternatives." There appeared to be no cognizance of the complexity or even the reality of the situation in Viet Nam. The entire problem seemed to boil down to being for or against the burning of Vietnamese children. During one of the intermissions, however, my dismay...