Word: regretably
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...recognize that there are people beyond age 70, whom it would be a marvelous thing to have around--no doubt about it. Professors don't lose their abilities at age seventy. There are people who retire here quite often, about whom I have a very genuine sense of regret, because I know that these people still have all their capacities, are marvelous teachers, are marvelous scholars. In one sense, you say, we would have the services of some of these marvelous people longer. In extraordinary circumstances, very extraordinary, we have kept people beyond age 70, for a very short period...
According to Dale, Chesterton published 78 books. Not all are fine or triumphant, and far more than half are forgotten. But that is no reason for regret. As Father Andrew Greeley, the sociologist and pop novelist, comments, "In Books in Print I found nine volumes of H.G. Wells and eleven volumes of G.B. Shaw ... for Chesterton the list goes up to more than thirty. With thirty volumes listed, who needs a 'revival'?" If one ever becomes necessary, The Outline of Sanity is the place to begin...
Bloomfield and another Harvard medievalist, Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred, yesterday joined Benson in expressing regret about Robinson's decision to stay at Yale. Both said there was a wide pool of possible candidates for the position, but that Harvard had not yet focused on any particular scholars...
...Dole, 59, of Kansas is the upper house's current top banana. Dole was in excellent fettle last week at confirmation hearings for his wife Elizabeth Dole, 46, President Reagan's appointee to the post of Secretary of Transportation. "I feel like Nathan Hale," said he. "I regret that I have but one wife to give to my country's infrastructure." But he may have a challenger for the title of life of the party: California's new Senator, Pete Wilson, 49, who took on James Watt, the aggressive Interior Secretary. "He's off making...
...Anger, regret, and frustration were recurring themes Saturday, when war veterans and academics met in a day-long teach-in at the Law School to condemn the Vietnam war and to explain Vietnam veterans' difficulties in rejoining society after...