Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flemish Dierick Bouts' The Annunciation and outstanding canvases by Corot, Degas, Boucher, Guardi, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Van Dyck, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Eventually Gulbenkian made the same offer he had made London: all the pictures free forever-if the gallery built a special Gulbenkian annex to house them. With regret the National Gallery refused, stuck grimly to the rule that its permanent works be displayed by schools and periods, not by collectors...
...regret, however, that Houseman succumbed to the temptation of "improving" the play by cutting, although there are fewer cuts than one normally finds. A museum director does not crop a Rembrandt painting to fit the space on the wall; nor do music publishers and performers "correct" Beethoven's and Chopin's "mistakes" as they used to. We should be allowed to judge a play just as the author left it, without the benefit of the director's superior insight as to how it ought to have been written. And, of all Shakespeare's plays, Othello is the one that most...
...mothers ... It was their constant and cherished expectation that we 'return thanks to the state by delivering our people from evil and suffering' . . . The double challenge of the mainland remaining unrecovered and our people therein crying out in vain for deliverance aggravates our sense of regret . . . My wife and I dedicate ourselves once more to the supreme task to which we are called and thus strive to be not unworthy of our upbringing...
Relieved Sigh. Ike's letter expressing "profound regret" at Humphrey's resignation was heartfelt, for from their first meetings he and Humphrey had understood each other. The President was pleased that, before leaving Washington (probably to take over the board chairmanship of Pittsburgh's National Steel Corp., which he helped found in 1929), Humphrey will see the 1958 budget through Congress. But many an Eisenhower Republican breathed a sigh of relief when the White House announced, well in advance of the fact, that Humphrey's successor will be former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert B. Anderson...
...King Saud prepared to emplane for home, he and Feisal drew up a communique hailing the "new era of cordial relations" between their countries, pledged themselves to "oppose all attempts at foreign interference." From Jordan young King Hussein sent a message of regret that he could not join his fellow Kings, a gambit carefully arranged in advance to demonstrate that Saud, Feisal and Hussein were one for all and all for one, but without jamming the distasteful news too forcibly down Nasser's throat...