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...these days is that the two nations have exchanged places in the hierarchy of world power since World War II, and Britain has replaced the bemused hauteur with which it peered across the Atlantic in the 19th and early 20th centuries with a current admixture of dread and regret. What many Englishmen said after the war (and still say, to some degree) is that savage, sprawling America was amusing enough when it was a bulky, sleeping animal, but now that it has grown to a global monster, civilization will go to the hogs. This is the dark side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America and Britain: The Firm, Old Alliance | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

Martin looks back on the situation with regret, saying. "It's very unfair to Carole that it was dragged on for so long and [that] it made such a messy situation. I respect Carole very much as a very classy person, and I don't think that it was right that it was right that she had to go through such an emotional situation...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: A Tragic Comedy of Errors | 4/29/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors' Private Lives | 4/28/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Allen's Power Failure | 4/27/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Savoring the Sunset | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

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