Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story is told of the professor in an obscure field who was about to leave his opening day lecture on finding that no one had shown up to take his course. The delighted man planned to pass the semester in further research. But great was his dismay when a student hurried up to say he wanted to take the course...
Realm of Light. The retrospective show, covering 27 years of Sculptress Hepworth's work, provoked some murmurs of dismay from the critics. The Manchester Guardian complained that her carvings were "cold austerities [which do] not rouse any emotion much stronger than deep respect." But the Observer hailed the skill with which "she contrives to impart [life] to her obdurate materials." One thing that the show demonstrated clearly was that she has moved sharply away from her early preoccupation with natural forms toward a colder, more mathematical expression of idea and feeling. It also showed her close artistic affinity with...
...building trades view this situation with understandable dismay. FHA has been a great stabilizing force in the industry, and both bank and builder have come to rely on it. It is the builder's FDIC; its loss could mean the same kind of chaos and demoralization that would occur if the government suddenly stopped insuring bank deposits...
Guatemala's Archbishop Mariano Rossell y Arellano, 59, has watched the bold encroachment of Communism on his country with growing dismay. Last week the greying archbishop sounded a nationwide alarm, denouncing the Red infiltration in a pastoral letter read from all the country's Roman Catholic pulpits...
Moscow, by Theodor Plievier. A stunning documentary novel about the German drive on Moscow and the confusion and dismay of the Russian defenders (TIME, March...