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Fair enough, but Hartke is not a vivid enough central figure so that his dismay illuminates the wreckage. Too much about him seems random, taken without calculation from the parts bin. Why, for instance, has the author named him after Eugene V. Debs, the great U.S. socialist? Merely, or so it appears, because Vonnegut likes the contrast of Debs' nobility ("While there is a lower class I am in it . . . while there is a soul in prison I am not free") with the grubby hopelessness of Hartke's world. And what about that college for dyslectics? Is dyslexia a sign...
Wilson, a tall, lanky scholar with a disarmingly casual manner, responded with dismay. He argued forcefully that many critics did not bother to read all of Sociobiology, which did not junk free will and environmental influences but only modified them. "On the basis of objective evidence," he wrote, "the truth appears to lie somewhere in between, closer to the environmentalist than to the genetic pole...
Abortion-rights supporters expressed unease with Monday's development, just days after anti-abortion activists showed dismay that Souter had been on the board of a New Hampshire hospital and at a meeting when it voted to allow abortions at the facility...
...Minnesotans may demand more of a man they voted to high office than a simple act of contrition and a refund. Bill Morris, former chairman of the state's Independent-Republican party, summed up the dismay: "I think Minnesota now has 1 1/2 Senators . . . I think most of us voted for him to serve millions -- not make them." Some G.O.P. officials are urging Durenberger to step down by July 31 so that a special election could be held in November. Durenberger could then seek a vote of confidence by running in that race...
...have heard to my dismay that the Harvard faculty has voted to remove military programs from campus unless the services begin to commission homosexual officers...