Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before President Johnson even saw the letter. They pointed out that 26 other voluntary agencies are serving in Viet Nam without protest, and that less than a third of the I.V.S. personnel signed the letter to President Johnson. I.V.S. Director Arthur Z. Gardiner accepted Luce's resignation with regret, then made plans to head for Saigon to select replacements for the foursome from the staff in the field...
...stupefaction of statistics were the President's fiscal troika: Henry Fowler, Budget Director Charles L. Schultze and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Gardner Ackley. At the outset, Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, whose opposition spells finis for any tax package on the Hill, noted ominously: "I regret exceedingly the circumstances that bring you here...
...member of one of the regiments involved, now sadly lost in amalgamation, I observe with regret that your commentator on "Richardson's Folly," or whatever the new celluloid crucifixion of the Light Brigade [Aug. 4] is to be entitled, is ignorant of the history of the brigade and its gallant-but monotonously misrepresented-charge. Let him remember that the "military caste system" Miss Woodham-Smith so coldly indicts produced, along with all the other "rank incompetents," such commanders as Marlborough, Wolfe, Wellington-and, indeed, Washington...
...Here, as John Devlin plays him, he comes off rather colorless. Ernest Graves' Duncan, though gray-haired, is younger than usual--which is in keeping with Colicos' Macbeth, since the two are first cousins. John Cunningham's Malcolm is crisply spoken, but too priggish for my taste; I almost regret that he does gain the throne...
Rich with insights into the clowns' techniques, Films will undoubtedly add new dimensions to the L. & H. legend -a prospect that Everson contemplates with regret. "Overadulation," he warns, "can often build up a wall of resentment against its objects, who are usually wholly innocent of any involvement in a cult movement, often dislike it, and usually refuse to take it seriously." When he heard about the formation of the Sons of the Desert shortly before his death, Laurel suggested that the club should maintain only a halfway dignity, and that "everybody have a hell...