Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gives me much professional and personal pleasure to welcome TIME'S new publisher, Bernhard M. Auer, to these columns. But I must confess that after nearly 15 years of discourse with TIME'S readers in this space, I turn it over to my successor with some regret...
...ironically, an ally in the Korean war) for its bloody suppression of Negro demonstrations against apartheid. Said the State Department spokesman: "While the U.S., as a matter of practice, does not ordinarily comment on the internal affairs of governments with which it enjoys normal relations, it cannot help but regret the tragic loss of life...
...rest of your report, the direct quotes were selected perceptively and fairly, but I regret that the editorial slant contradicts their meaning and sets up a straw man by equating me with Herbert Spencer. If you wish to refute me, you will not do so by refuting Spencer (or Nietzsche, or Epicurus or Robert A. Taft). Their philosophies are not mine...
...then touching, she is cynical and hard. "I don't forgive," she says, "even the ones who have done nothing to me." She was not ruined or misled; she was never sentimentally tempted or morally torn; the one time love came to her it was overwhelmingly physical; regret was not for being calculating but for miscalculating, not for her tarnished youthful past, but for its passing. She has not mellowed or grown; she has only grown older...
...unexpected." With whom this squeamish reticence was supposed to win favor was not indicated. Great Britain remained officially dumb as well, although the opposition Labor Party denounced the French. Unlike Red China ("a defiance of world opinion") and East Germany ("an atomic crime!"), the Soviet Union merely expressed its "regret" in tones that indicated more sorrow than anger. On a visit to India, Red Boss Nikita Khrushchev took the Sahara detonation in stride, remarked casually that he still believed "France and President de Gaulle also want a relaxation in tensions...