Word: regretably
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...challenge his imagination. So he strains to outdo the exotica of everyday reality, and in the straining finds himself an alien in the modern world. He doesn't know quite what to make of industrial advance, youth culture, and political ferment. He stares at those phenomena with confusion and regret and would willingly retreat to the more secure confusion of more hallucination...
...navigator, was due to fly home from Guam for Christmas on Dec. 20. The day before, an officer from Andrews Air Force Base drove to the Washington, D.C., office of Certain's father, a labor-relations director for the Southern Railway System, identified himself and said: "I regret to inform you that your son is missing in action in North Viet...
...Dragoon Guards. Declared the League Against Cruel Sports: "Animal lovers are appalled that the princess appears to be able to do no better with her leisure time than to help beat the daylights out of foxes." From the RSPCA, one militant group demanded that the Queen "express regret" or resign from the organization. A palace spokesman was modestly regretful: "Most of the royal family do not go fox hunting. But this was bound to happen to Princess Anne as she has so many friends who ride and are in that circle. It seems that the temptation was too great...
...reduce the blur which contemplation of the world produces. In literature there is an order which is absent elsewhere; in the poem, stanzas erect an imagined realm exclusive of chaos. The reader, whose desperate activities I've compared to those of an addict, turns to the Cantos with regret; he would rather read the measured lines of Pushkin...
Grand Funk. There is nothing I can say about GFR that hasn't been said to excess already, except that I personally regret the fact that they come away with the best group name in all of rock. I saw them. They were wretched. I was standing in front of a massive bank of PA system speakers. I couldn't hear anything but high-pitched buzzing for two days. However, Funk is out from under Terry Knight, and that, at least, is a beginning...