Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychological need to seek reassurance from subordinates. His tranquillity and self-confidence are reflected in his frank assessment of his own strengths and weaknesses. "It doesn't bother him to say 'I don't know,' " observes White House Aide Michael Duval. Much to the distress of some of his advisers, Ford has been largely content to allow Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to dominate the headlines on foreign affairs. "He just doesn't feel the need to compete with Henry," says a senior aide...
...Last June, Congress passed legislation directing the Administration to protest "in forceful terms" within 60 days against the Park regime's persecution of dissidents. Last week an Assistant Secretary of State called in the South Korean ambassador and handed him a note saying that the Congress "views with distress the erosion of important civil liberties." State Department officials said, however, the note was not deliberately timed to coincide with the court verdicts. It was simply that the 60 days had expired...
Nothing was to distress the trade more than Keating's versions of the work of Samuel Palmer (1805-81), whose moonlit landscapes of Shoreham are among the most sought-after works in English romantic landscape painting. Palmer made some 80 Shoreham watercolors, oils and drawings; Keating made 80 more-mainly by copying details of Palmers and cobbling them together. The first such "Palmer" was sold to a British museum by Colnaghi's, a major Bond Street dealer, in 1965. In 1969 another "Palmer," titled Sepham Barn, went at auction to the Leger Galleries...
Meanwhile, the family is in some distress: Ludovic's wife threatens suicide; Marthe's husband, jealous, even desists from his own love affairs to bring her to heel. Although Director Jean-Charles Tacchella manages some telling glimpses of family life, Cousin, Cousine becomes a sort of bourgeois anti-bourgeois parody. At its worst moments the movie looks like a musical without songs. Characters glide about, acting as if they are about to burst into song...
...reason that their states can no longer afford to pick up the tab, like patsy older brothers, to fatten other parts of the U.S. The issue is likely to prove a prickly one for the next President, particularly if he hails from a place like Georgia. Sensing its deepening distress if not decay, can anyone fault the Northeast and Midwest for wanting at least to break even...