Word: regretably
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...only regret is that Skow passed a negative judgment on Salinger's desire for privacy. Some writers run for public office, others enjoy the social whirl, others get into scrapes with the police. This is their business. But a man who asks nothing but to be left in peace to attack the blank pages in his typewriter should be able to do just that without being sniped at by a Swados or a Skow...
...evident reaction, coolly informs him: "You're the 37th. I want to kiss 50 men before I get married.'' Smugly, she assures him that she is in love with her fiancé. Has Don Juan never been in love? "People who can love" he replies, with regret he had not realized he felt. "can be counted on one hand, and their suffering is without end. They are mirrors which reflect God's light upon us other wretches, groping in the dark." She looks at him as if he were an exotic tidbit-say, a sugar-coated...
...remarks on President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia [July 28] "that the West would never look at him with the same confidence again": I feel I ought to put the record straight that if France refuses to quit Bizerte and the U.S. is content enough to only issue statements of regret, then not only Mr. Bourguiba and the Tunisian people but the Afro-Asian countries as a whole will lose confidence in the West...
Last week Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba accepted his first Communist aid, $27.7 million in ruble credits. He did so while muttering imprecations against the two nations that he had trusted, France and the U.S. To the De Gaulle government, this was less an occasion for regret than proof of Bourguiba's weakness. And when Bourguiba announced that if France would agree to negotiate its eventual withdrawal from Bizerte, he would not press for a U.N. debate, the confident French took their time about replying. An official source said casually that in view of present East-West tension...
...Penn Station, the Pennsy expects its share of the revenues from the new Garden to cut its operating loss on the station to $1,000,000 annually. Those who mourn Manhattan's disappearing architectural landmarks will not sigh long over the dilapidated Garden on Eighth Avenue, but will regret the leveling of the greyed, Grecian granite Penn Station, whose vaulted open arcade was modeled on the ancient Roman Baths of Caracalla...