Word: regretable
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...clearly Buñuel's theme, he seems perversely unable or unwilling to settle accounts with the chambermaid, his pivotal character. She spurns her master, loves the murdered child, seduces the sadistic Joseph, promises to marry him, turns him over to the gendarmes with some show of regret, and finally marries the boor next door. Miraculously, Actress Moreau performs a contradictory role with an air of wry and knowing detachment, as if she were privy to soul-deep secrets that even the best directors can only guess...
...Deep Regret. Replied Bonn's ambassador to Washington, Heinrich Knappstein, in letters about the ad: "I was appalled ... I deeply regret this attack on a government and a people who have done everything in their power-as far as this is possible at all-to make up for the past." Some Germans wanted to do even more. For all the ties developed over the years, Bonn has never formally recognized the state of Israel. Last week German students in West Berlin paraded for Israeli recognition as one answer to Germany's critics...
...reliable anti-Communist ally-in Bangkok, in Seoul, in Manila and elsewhere. It would push Cambodia and Indonesia completely into China's lap. Malaysia would catch the brunt of this power realignment, thus forcing the British into a narrow, nasty corner. According to many experts, Russia would regret this move as much as the U.S., since it would immensely strengthen Peking's pretensions to the leadership of world Communism...
...drop in Peace Corps recruiting may well be due to the fact that students agree with Delano that "some-time in your life you must be a volunteer, or you will regret it." But the competition for volunteer time is increasing, and one Cliffie commented that she would not choose the Peace Corps as she once might have done, "because I'd rather work in Mississippi and solve my own country's problems...
...Washington, the U.S. protested the Moscow demonstration-the eighth such occurrence since June 1958-as an "outrage." President Johnson authorized the release of a statement to the effect that such attacks severely damage U.S.-Soviet relations. "Expressions of regret and compensation," it said, "are no substitute for adequate protection...