Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the colleges have fads," he said. "One year they emphasize academic achievement. The next year it may be leadership. The next year it may be social adjustment. I had a choice. I knew my grades would suffer if I did these other things. But I don't regret it. I think they were worthwhile things...
...donations, its main clinic serves 200 patients a week; other facilities include courses in English, sewing, nutrition, sanitation and business, and a school that graduates 15 sorely needed nurse's aides every three months. Dr. Roberto Escalante, head of the new children's hospital, has only one regret. "I only wish," he told this year's volunteers, "that you could be here to see the mothers' faces when they bring their sick children here." Chances are they will-next year...
...nation's Catholics. Every diocesan survey so far shows widespread support for changes in the Mass, which were approved by more than 90% of American bishops. Among them was De Pauw's own superior, Baltimore's Lawrence Cardinal Shehan. His comment: "I regret extremely that Father De Pauw has seen fit to take the stand that he has professed...
...also a story of what has been lost in the passing of a stable old way of life-and what was gained and not gained by the new. This equation is viewed with neither regret nor reproach. The story is principally told through its varied, vivid characters. Reb Meshulam Moskat is a patriarch with a talent for victory, who manages his business and his family with a high, old-fashioned hand. But not without opposition. "I spin and I spin and nothing comes of it. I've had two wives, seven children, given out dowries, supported sons...
...clearly Buñuel's theme, he seems perversely unable or unwilling to settle accounts with the chambermaid, his pivotal character. She spurns her master, loves the murdered child, seduces the sadistic Joseph, promises to marry him, turns him over to the gendarmes with some show of regret, and finally marries the boor next door. Miraculously, Actress Moreau performs a contradictory role with an air of wry and knowing detachment, as if she were privy to soul-deep secrets that even the best directors can only guess...