Word: regretably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these examples deal with women. I used to think that women were more likely to distinguish between the office and the home because they may have reflected more on how their father's career in the olden days over-whelmed mother and children. Thus I confess that I regret at least one feature of the widespread professionalization among women at Harvard. Women are now apparently just as likely as men to disregard the autonomy of the home. Of course, just as many examples can be given of the same long standing regrettable behavior among...
...closing line in the biographical sketch for Lightbulb says that Woody Allen's "one regret in life is that he is not someone else," but in no work yet has he made a serious effort at being anyone but himself. Maybe the Allen character in this play is Paul, but it's hard to see how or why and impossible to cast the author as anyone else...
...Wright often places a prose poem's main subject in its title, a technique which allows the first lines to focus on an action rather than a noun. Hence the line "laying the foundations of a community, she labors all alone" carries an immediate impetus in a poem called "Regret for a Spider...
...past decade, plays the role of the nurse. Dame Judith was jumpy about returning to the boards. Says she: "The last time I was onstage was ten years ago." Whitehead recalls that he and Dame Judith had a "stormy relationship" during their previous Medea but adds: "I regret we let over 30 years go by without working on it again together...
...prominent economist who turned down the directorship of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) two years ago after loud student and faculty opposition said yesterday he does not regret his decision because he is still able to collaborate periodically with Harvard scholars on a variety of projects...