Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortified, disappeared from view: there were fewer writers in any country who seemed to have anything to say to the intellectual public of another. . . . Perhaps for a long way ahead, the continuity of culture may have to be maintained by a very small number of people indeed." His greatest regret: that the price of The Criterion barred it ''to most of the readers who are qualified to appreciate what is good in it, and to criticise what is faulty...
...such a viewpoint into the public press was the main thing. I salute you and regret only that you did not find in my own work more to satisfy your logic...
...melting pot is working, not only to the advantage of the American physique, but to the great benefit of American culture and civilization. Those who regret the tremendous immigration of the past would do well to reflect on the invaluable elements of every kind which we have gained from it. --The Boston Herald...
...Strachey, barred from the U. S. by Franklin Roosevelt's State Department for being a Communist (TIME, Oct. 24). Bailed out of Ellis Island on condition that he deliver no lectures. Red-stained Mr. Strachey nevertheless managed to throw a dubious kiss at Franklin Roosevelt: "My chief regret is that I cannot now express publicly my support for the New Deal and my detestation of Fascism and Nazism in all their forms...
Rachmaninoff lived to regret the popularity of his Prelude. He himself gave it more than 1,000 performances in the U. S. alone, got so sick of it that the mere sound of its three opening crashes gave him the creeps. Once, when asked in an interview how it should be played, he wrung his hands and replied hoarsely: "I do not care! They can play it any way they choose just so long as they do not play it where I can hear...