Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actors, he at once casts most of the state into the dusk of memory and infuses the room with the state of mind the actors are projecting. Thus as Tom silently apologizes to Laura just after he has taunted and cursed his mother, the dark room broods behind his regret and her acceptance...
...Barcelona. Picasso also decreed that his famed mural Guernica, which has been on temporary loan to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art since World War II, be returned to Spain when civil liberties have been restored. Last week, as Spain mourned him as its own, his countrymen expressed regret that Picasso had not ensured that more of his major works would one day be seen in his homeland...
...this reason, I feel a strong regret that so few law students are conversant with literature, classics, and philosophy. In proper perspective, and mixed with a knowledge of the vocabularies and basic principles of the social and natural sciences, nothing can be more practical to the practicing lawyer than history, literature, and philosophy because policy decisions and lawyer-client decisions are far more often made through deductive rather than inductive logic...
...blue flag of the command under which 2,500,000 American G.I.s had served since 1962. Ellsworth Bunker, a distinguished career diplomat who had served as U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam since 1967, also furled his flag last week. President Nixon accepted the resignation with "deepest personal regret," and named former ambassador to Italy Graham Martin to the post...
...higher reaches of the Catholic Church are seldom made public. But recently, the Society of Jesus confirmed that its superior general, the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, had sent a letter of apology to a ranking member of the Papal Curia, Archbishop Giovanni Benelli. Arrupe's letter expressed regret for an article in the London Observer by Father Peter Hebblethwaite, S.J., editor of the English Jesuit magazine, The Month. Hebblethwaite had attacked Benelli, who is considered one of Pope Paul VI's closest confidants and advisers, as being "concerned with prestige and pomposity at a time when many Christians...