Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
...your piece on ABC Reporter Lisa Howard [July 28], you quoted her as asking Khrushchev: "What is your definition of freedom?" I regret that you did not use the entire question. To keep the record straight, what Miss Howard asked was: "All the spokesmen for the Western position say the real struggle in the world today is between freedom and Communist tyranny-stressing in your country the lack of a free press, the refusal to accept opposition parties. You say the Communist peoples are free, but there is obviously a problem of semantics here, and I ask you, sir, what...
...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...