Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summing up, Adolf Eichmann said: "I have regret and condemnation for the extermination of the Jewish people, which was ordered by the German rulers, but I myself could not have done anything against it. I was a tool in the hands of the strong and powerful and in the hands of fate itself. . . Where there is no responsibility, there can be no guilt." Thus, finishing 70 hours of testimony, he closed up the last of the brown folders from which he had produced mountains of documents, blew his nose heartily and leaned back to receive the onslaught of cross-questioning...
...Tory right wing is anti-Common Market, believing Britain is still physically powerful enough to go it alone as a great power; e.g., they regret the abortive Suez invasion only as a failure of nerve and not of policy. The Labor left wing is also antiMarket in order to retain Brit ain's unilateral capacity to act; it is the left's impression that Britain is still morally powerful enough to sway world opinion, particularly by giving up the atom bomb to shame everybody else into disarming. When Laborite Roy Jenkins forcefully argued that Britain ought...
...three-element vacuum tube in 1906 led to the development of radio, long-distance telephony, sound movies and television; following a long illness; in Hollywood. In the process of piling up more than 300 patents, the Yale-educated minister's son lost four fortunes, almost came to regret the product of his genius. Wrote he to the National Association of Broadcasters on the 40th anniversary of his audion tube: "You have debased [ my] child . . . You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence . . . a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere...
...There is no doubt that Canadians accept and value TIME. More than 245,000 Canadians buy it every week, and some million and a quarter Canadians read it regularly. We think they would regret being deprived...
Varieties of Life. Few regret the passing of the phony Hays ethics in which morality was supposedly satisfied as long as movies stuck to a long list of artificial don'ts (don't show a man and woman in bed, even if they are married, etc.). But Hollywood's new freedom, while making more room for honest art, has also made more room for calculated smut, drawing a barrage of protests from parents, pastors and assorted pressure groups. Defying accusations of censorship, many have suggested some sort of adults-only classification system on the theory that movies...