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Lyndon Johnson would have agreed. When he invited Lowell to the White House in 1965, the poet wired a stern refusal, explaining that he regarded "our present foreign policy with the greatest dismay and distrust." Among old friends or in class at Harvard, where he taught for many years, he was a vivid, eloquent presence. He could hold forth for hours on any subject, his hands brushing back his unkempt white mane. And his poetry revealed the same confiding voice that animated his conversation. The controlled metrics of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs...
...President Carter said with some dismay, "The lobbyists have come out of the woodwork...
...another sort burst for Correspondent Patricia Delaney when she revisited her former Beverly Hills condominium. Delaney was still riding high over the $10,000 profit she had made 18 months earlier, when she sold the condominium after being reassigned to Chicago. But, says Delaney, "my joy turned to dismay after seeing my old neighborhood. My condominium was for sale again-at $55,000 more than my 1976 selling price...
...head of programming, Silverman does not just schedule shows the way a train dispatcher schedules runs into Grand Central Station. Often?to the dismay of producers, directors and writers ?he becomes producer, director and writer. He reads the script of every new show, pilots of shows, and potential pilots of shows. "I never worked so hard in my life as when Freddie was working for me at CBS," says Bob Wood. "He'd give me scripts to take home at night, and then call a half-hour after I got home to ask how I liked them. He knows...
...visiting Ford to attend an American Legion Convention, claimed to have won a convert or two among the anti-treaty legionnaires. This week he stalks still bigger game: former California Governor Ronald Reagan, who earlier had denounced Carter's campaign for support as a "medicine show." To the dismay of the critics, Reagan agreed to withhold criticism until he had been briefed by Linowitz and Bunker. It seemed unlikely, however, that Reagan would join such conservative Republicans as Senators S.I. Hayakawa and Barry Goldwater in an endorsement...