Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hounds while the world is going to the dogs. Waugh loathes them because they have betrayed the aristocratic ethos, and he depicts the society they dominate as a moral chaos, a twittering world in which bored women leave their husbands for men they do not even like, mothers regret the death of children only because mourning limits social life, and convicts given tools to stimulate their creativity employ them to decapitate the chaplain...
...getting into. If they don't know much about the methods of their discipline, they are at least somewhat familiar with the nature of the subject matter. In Anthropology, on the other hand, there are always a few concentrators who choose the field for the wrong reasons and regret it later. There are also several who subject Anthropology because, likewise they aren't well informed...
...thing they lacked was a sense of guilt, which, much to Moorehead's evident regret, was imported by missionaries along with a new taboo-against strong drink. It is nice to know, however, that when a latecomer called Charles Darwin offered a consolatory dram of booze to the muted inhabitants of what he called "the fallen paradise," they rose to the occasion with noble savagery. Gravely they put their fingers before their lips. Solemnly they uttered the word "missionary." But then they drank...
Jested Daily News Editor Jimmy Ward on the front page: "Did you hear about the Negro marine who is serving his country well in Viet Nam? He received a telegram on the battlefield which read: 'We regret to inform you that your mother and father were killed "in action" in Los Angeles.' " When a Mississippi anti-poverty program folded, Ward bade farewell to the "slew-footed, unsoaped ragtag of human flotsam who were roaming Mississippi to create hate and provoke a killing...
Their approach was cautious, logical, austere. Their devotion to classic purity, to the sanctity of the composer's intent, spawned a new school of junior-executive pianists, most of them Americans, noted for their technical brilliance and carbon-copy sameness. Rubinstein, with more regret than scorn, calls them "bank clerks." They practice, practice, practice?and when they go onstage, so remote is their detachment from their audience that they practice some more...