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...CHRISTMAS season, you cry in dismay...
Trudeau, 60, did not spell out his reasons for relinquishing the Liberal leadership; yet it was clear from his lackluster performance as the top spokesman of the opposition that he was bored with the job. Liberal stalwarts in western Canada were dismayed two weeks ago when he begged off from a party gathering because he had "the flu." Their dismay turned to anger when they saw in their newspapers a photograph of Trudeau cantering into a Manhattan disco. His estranged wife, Margaret, who once frequented such night spots, has bought a townhouse in Ottawa to be near the couple...
...Roosevelt to obtain a change of that policy, and found that the only place where Randolph and I could eat was in Union Station, since restaurants in the nation's capital would not serve blacks. I wrote about this in The New Leader. Shortly thereafter, I found to my dismay that Goebbels had reprinted and broadcast these pieces to show the "hypocrisy" of American democracy. Should we have refrained from continuing to write such stories because of their misuse...
...rather clumsy campaign by Chinese security officials to crack down on a small but vocal free speech movement that was encouraged inadvertently by Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. A year ago, Deng declared: "If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it." Since then, to the dismay of China's leadership, dissidents have pasted up posters on democracy wall bluntly attacking the authoritarianism of the regime. New underground magazines have sprung up; they contain detailed reports on the horrendous conditions in Chinese prisons as well as sharply worded demands for human rights...
...subsequent and lesser political disturbances that precede the election. He makes his mind up early, and he is a hard judge. In 1964, for instance, it was not Senator Barry Goldwater's warlike remarks about Cuba that cooked his goose in New Hampshire. It was his existential dismay one night in Littleton, as he was drawn through the town in a cart pulled by a Shetland pony. The Senator not only looked like a man imprudent enough to let himself be talked into sitting in a pony cart; he looked as if the pony were in control...