Word: regretfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Memory comes alive on a day like this," said the old Chancellor, who was himself twice imprisoned by the Nazis. "In recent weeks things have happened in Germany that we most deeply regret. I ask the world to be assured that we will work with all our strength never again to let happen what happened during the Nazi period...
...employment in a mental institution to write honestly and objectively of his or her experiences without shocking someone. However, if The Caretakers is so shocking that the real moral of the book-the fact that we are all caretakers of one sort or another-is lost, that I regret...
Concomitant with the announcement of courses, retiring Summer School Director William Y. Elliott issued a statement expressing his regret at leaving in order to return to "writing and scholarly pursuits." A new director has not yet been selected...
...spoke of the nation's "rage and shame" and demanded swift police action; the Minister of Interior hinted that he might ban the German Reich Party (whose former Nazi leaders professed innocence). But the Socialist Neue Rhein Zeitung of Cologne complained that "all these telegrams and expressions of regret . . . seem to be prompted by the concern over the Cologne disgrace abroad." In a radio speech, President Heinrich Lubke blamed all Germans for an "overestimation of material achievement as opposed to intellectual, spiritual and moral values," and noted the continued prevalence in Germany of "arrogance, self-satisfaction and feelings...
Thus left without a cause, the Free Press and the Times were inclined to drop the subject. But not the News, which was still troubled by the court's "inherent right" claim. "We learn with regret: we're not in contempt," it editorialized last week. "We will try to violate the suppression rule to the judge's satisfaction, and thus get the question on the proper road to settlement by a higher court...