Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before France's National Assembly, asked for a 1961 pension budget of $106,800. To determine who in France is really an author, Malraux applied the social security definition that a writer is one drawing at least 51% of his income from author's rights. To his dismay, Malraux found French letters in a sad state. Only 150 writers in all France qualified under the definition-and about 80% of these were either mystery-plotting hacks or vulgarizers of other works. Moaned he: "Who will deny that in this domain, statistics lead to the absurd? The problem...
...early returns on Crosby's pronouncement were something less than a vote of confidence. About half the 82 newspapers that carry his TV comments are expected to drop his new column. The reaction did not dismay Crosby, who expects that when the public has learned to appreciate his moral marksmanship, "twice as many papers will carry my column as we have...
Three hours later, after many and a few songs, Pete Seeger the situation; the symbolism, those who cared, was reversed. dismay at a society where controlled machines descrate even Star Spangled Banner he request that the audience stand and, without companiment, sing the anthem's verse. "Think particularly," he "of the last lines: 'O say does that Spangled Banner still wave o'er land of the free and the home of brave." For a few minutes this dressed man, his seasick-green and red socks eminently his left hand moving up and down to control the collective voice...
...worth. A Taipei publisher named Lei Chen made the mistake last summer of starting an opposition party--something that is not done in America's rather tarnished bastion of democracy in the Far East. On September 4, Chang's men arrested Lei on charges of sedition, much to the dismay of Nationalist intellectuals at home and overseas. Now the trial, originally scheduled for October 15, is being pushed through this week, and no one has any serious doubts as to its outcome...
...Sound of the Pipes. Outside the Elysee, De Gaulle's pronouncements left few people laughing, were greeted even by his allies with veiled dismay and hostility. While West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer hopefully announced from an Italian vacation retreat that there must have been "wrong interpretation of some of De Gaulle's ideas." Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns bluntly stated that his government regarded any scheme to dilute NATO as "intolerable." How, others asked, could De Gaulle talk of strictly national defense when nearly the entire French army was bogged down in Algeria? De Gaulle...