Word: distraughtly
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Died. William Pels, 48, wry, worldly president of ultra-progressive Bennington College for girls since 1957, who enthusiastically supported such famed Bennington trademarks as the nine-week semester of outside work, the dawn curfew for girls and 6 p.m. quitting time for boys visiting in dormitory rooms, explaining to distraught mothers and skeptical colleagues: "If regulations are too strict, you run your students into automobiles and motels"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
When he shouts, the audience cringes at the distraught intensity of his voice, and when he sobs despairingly, they feel only pity. Where Camus intended Caligula to learn what despair really means, in the body itself, Karlen already knows despair; what he learns is logic, or the logic of logic...
...called the White House to check it. With Lyndon and several top aides on the road, Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird's press secretary, was the only White House press staffer on hand. She took the call. Unbelieving and upset, she phoned Jenkins in his office. Within minutes, a distraught Jenkins got in touch with Lawyer Abe Fortas,* an old Lyndon crony, and told him almost hysterically that he was in "real trouble." Fortas called Fellow Lawyer Clark Clifford, a top trouble-shooter in the Truman, Kennedy and Johnson Administrations...
...Peter MacLean, who play the central characters in de Ghelderode's drama. And in its quiet way, Riders to the Sea is a much more difficult play. Escurial is a shock piece, a sort of dramatic danse macabre acted out by a demented, tyrannical king (MacLean) and his distraught fool (Bramhall). Riders to the Sea centers on the death by drowning of the last two male members of a once-large Irish family. Madness is not so difficult to portray, once you get the knack of it. Grief is a good deal harder...
Clutching the hand of his distraught mother, Queen Frederika, Greece's new King Constantine, 23, headed a funeral cortege that included five reigning monarchs and scores of princes, Presidents and Premiers. At Metropolitan Cathedral, 50 bearded Greek Orthodox bishops in white and gold robes assisted the Primate of Greece in the 50-minute ceremony. As the service ended, Frederika kissed her husband's coffin, then broke into uncontrollable sobs...