Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the publication of A Division of the Spoils in 1975, English Author Paul Scott completed The Raj Quartet -a four-novel, 2,000-page saga set in India during the sunset of British rule. To the regret of Scott's many devotees, that seemed to be that: the last of the white sahibs and memsahibs taking their bows in a long, engrossing valedictory. Not quite. Staying On offers another look at a locale familiar to readers of The Raj Quartet. This new novel is less a sequel than a graceful comic coda to the earlier song of India...
...strict curriculum the task force claims that students need the guidance that requirements would give them. The report says these requirements are necessary to insure that all students are exposed to those significant intellectual skills and elements of culture that, given free choice, they might well neglect and later regret having done...
...final 36 hours of the meeting, haggard and dispirited delegates shuffled from conference room to conference room seeking some small patch of common ground upon which a final communiqué could be based. The resulting document, while it conceded a modicum of progress, expressed the South's "regret" that "certain proposals for urgent actions had not been agreed upon...
...when he became President? Said he: "The most popular position to take on Viet Nam ... was to bug out and blame it on Johnson and Kennedy." But he did not take this easy way because "Kennedy and Johnson were right in going into Viet Nam." Nixon's only regret about his own tactics, he said, was that "I didn't act stronger sooner." Had the U.S. employed saturation bombing of civilian centers in Southeast Asia, he went on, the war would have ended "in a tragic way, but much, much sooner...
...FORMING A GOVERNMENT. I would like a government of national security, meaning all the parties except the Communists. I would like the Labor Party in, but if [the party's leaders] refuse, then we shall say we regret it but it is their decision. We shall try to have a government in which the majority in the Knesset will express its confidence. We will not even try to form a minority government as Labor has now. We consider the Democratic Movement for Change to be a serious candidate for the coalition. But we would not accept a D.M.C. ultimatum...