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...elimination of the Marxism unit has provoked a notable amount of dismay from students and tutors alike. It is cited as the most popular topic on the list, and interest in it this year crossed lines of political partisanship. One tutor reports. "One of my most Reaganite students found the section on alienation particularly absorbing." Tutors also say that the opportunities for reading Marx in the original are fairly rare and that this leads to many misinterpretations of his writings in subsequent work...
Such widespread outcries of dismay and indignation were provoked by Syria's and Pakistan's apparent violation of the cardinal rule of international antiterrorism procedure: do not surrender to blackmail...
...rebellion was led by four former Labor Cabinet ministers who put their careers on the line in order to spotlight their deep dismay at the increasing power of the far left in the Labor Party. The first to bolt was Shirley Williams, former Education Secretary and for years one of Labor's most popular front benchers. She resigned last month from the Labor national executive committee, declaring pointedly that "the party I loved and worked for no longer exists." She was followed by Owen, former Transportation Minister William Rodgers, and onetime Deputy Party Leader and Home Secretary Roy Jenkins...
...they both committed errors. Hamilton, wheeling around the ice in a simple stroking move, pushed too hard, slipped and fell. Because it was a simple move, he was not penalized severely, though he did not know that at the time. He snapped his fingers in surprisingly good-natured dismay, like a man who had just dropped his keys, not his chances at a world championship. Hamilton later said that he had become so excited by the crowd response after he completed his most difficult triple jump that he told himself, " 'Okay, here we go.' I was really wanting...
...black and Jew, on the issue of quotas. Then too there are the white lies told daily in the universities by fainthearted, if well-meaning, professors writing false recommendations for unprepared black students for jobs in which they are bound to fail; the professors then are lost in dismay when the students fail and resent the lie. All these things and more, including white racism, whose unredeemed resilience may be read in the revival of the Klan, or scrawled above the nation's urinals, where it belongs...