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...Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voiced another reason for concern over the expanding conflict: that the U.S. will be caught in an economic squeeze between the mounting costs of the war and the Administration's ever more ambitious domestic programs. Russell's dismay even caused him to mix his metaphors. "If we are able to have both butter and guns," he pronounced, "we will have accomplished the feat of having our cake and eating it too, which no government has heretofore been able to achieve...
...balmy April evening in 1924, Federico Garcia Lorca, then studying at the University of Madrid, dropped in at an exhibition of paintings and drawings by a young artist named Gregorio Prieto. Already acclaimed as a poet of merit, Lorca also enjoyed sketching. But much to his dismay, the friends who hung on his every word dismissed his every line. In Prieto, he found someone who could appreciate his art as well as his poetry. After the show the two visited Prieto's atelier, then went on to Lorca's room. There the poet took a drawing titled...
...Jane, while touring Europe, throws up culture as not worth the price and conceives Hull House, the exemplary instance of human relations saturated with politics. Randolph Bourne is a lamentably deformed younger son who seeks to regain his identity at the neighbors' soirees in Greenwich village, but "to his dismay, he discovered that the girls who talked so convincingly about the 'human sex' were not interested in the art of personal relations." Mabel Dodge Luhan is a crazed and slightly nymphomaniacal auntie whose cultural and sexual cravings were never thoroughly straightened out. And D. H. Lawrence stalks through the story...
...dismay of many associates, Shastri's humility is not put on. He stubbornly refuses to do anything that might build up his personal image, even when it could help the country. During last year's food crisis, Shastri decided to forgo rice as a symbol of self-denial. But out of modesty he refused to let the fact be relayed to the rioting people, and the possible impact was lost. Yet many Indians feel that more than self-abnegation is needed to confront grave problems. Says Editor Frank Moraes of the Indian Express: "Leaders have no business being...
Lowell's dismay at our country's recent actions in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic." From the 400 guests, Macdonald got only seven signatures.* The others were either embarrassed or outraged. "Adolescent," snapped Author Ralph Ellison. Fumed Painter Peter Hurd: "It's just plain uncivilized." Macdonald was unintimidated. "I came here," he said, "to make trouble politically. I'm the bad fairy come to the christening...