Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIFFICULT to read Elizabeth Hardwick's third book of essays. "Bartleby in Manhattan", without a growing sense of irritation and dismay. Hardwick is a wordsmith who cannot, apparently, control her craft; her essays meander and bring one at long last to a denouement of sorts, without ever really engaging one's interest. She writes with constant reference to pundits both past and present, but without really linking her own criticisms and those she cites to form a coherent whole. A Columbia English professor, Hardwick is strongest with literary criticism, but weaker on popular issues. All too often she writes cryptically...
...become legend on the West Coast. It was greeted with jubilation in Berkeley, which had gone into the game 13-point underdogs to the John Elway-led Cardinals. Prominently displayed on California chests this summer were T-shirts diagraming the entire miracle run. The loss brought shock and dismay to the Stanford fans, who immediately began slotting revenge...
...number of them this week to hammer home the point. The evidence Reagan was able to reveal about a planned Cuban-Soviet buildup on that minuscule island provided, albeit after the fact, additional justification for the American action. Although the hazardous situation of U.S. forces in Lebanon caused widespread dismay, the anger and frustration over the Beirut bombing seemed to be counterbalanced by the relatively clean strike in the Caribbean. New Hampshire Democrat Robert Stephen, a state senator whose son took part in the Grenada invasion, describes the impression he got from talking to his constituents and customers...
Firm in our free beliefs without dismay...
Proposed by Prime Minister P.W. Botha to the dismay of some white nationalist supporters of the apartheid regime, the constitution would attempt to change South African politics by rendering them dependent on class interests rather than racial concerns. This has naturally led to fierce political infighting among leaders of the Afrikan Nationalist Party. Yet the practical effects of Botha's proposal, which has already been approved by the white Parliament, would be negligible, at least in relation to addressing the issue of Black rights...