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...life. For the rich (who generally have several other places elsewhere), an apartment is a kind of permanently rented hotel suite. For seekers of anonymity or those who merely hope to be rich, the city apartment is a springboard, a stopping-off place that can be left without regret or nostalgia on the way to a better spot. It is ideal for those who value convenience and mobility above roots (their roots are generally back in Indiana, or in the suburbs), for people who are eternally on the edge of their chairs, ready to leave for Europe or the Caribbean...
...Students unable to pay the full rate will be helped through financial aid," President Bunting said. "We regret the timing of this announcement, but the decision was made on the basis of the budget and could not be made earlier...
...showed no sign of regret at abandoning the moneyed and meaningless roles Hollywood had assigned her, knowing with sure instinct that such parts would never be right for a girl born to the tumbling poverty of Italy's back streets. Says one director: "Sophia is perhaps the only movie star who has never forgotten where she came from...
...Late Regret. It is difficult to see how. Their religious element is mostly discussion of erudite Anglican minutiae and spiritual snobbisms that are more likely to chill the unconverted than warm them. They are loaded with off-the-cuff comments that Rose Macaulay herself would have been distressed to see in print. And it is doubtful that many sinners will be changed by her moving repentance of her life's love: "I told you once that I couldn't really regret the past. But now I do regret it, very much . . . Not all the long years of happiness...
Feiffer knows that a satirist's effectiveness can be gauged in terms of the resentment he arouses. Sunday, in all modesty, he observed that since the Berlin crisis he has finally begun losing fans and newspapers. Need he then regret that, like Shaw, his satire is expressed with such charm and sympathy that the sting is often unfelt...