Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accept the necessity for freedom of expression, it follows that in an intellectual controversy any attempt to coerce rather than to persuade--to make a person regret having expressed an opinion without convincing him of the error of the opinion itself--is not merely an offense against the person so coerced, but an erosion of the mechanics which make free expression work and therefore make it possible...
...article, they engage in blatant lies and misquotes (see yesterday's Crimson) and McCarthyite illogic (such as arguing that the defense of Herrnstein's article by the Harvard establishment proves that his ideas are important to them and therefore dangerous). It's easy to see how Professor Herrnstein might regret having written his article, and how others might think twice before publishing their own controversial beliefs...
...with peripheral events and dispenses with them as often as possible. He uses explanatory titles to speed up the action and cuts scenes mercilessly. It is toward the great events that his imagination tends--Lear raging at Cordelia or mad in the storm on the heath or overwhelmed with regret before his death--and on these scenes Brook lavishes his attention lovingly. To the Gloucester subplot he is for the most part cursory. He reserves his ingenuity for Lear alone. And as Lear, Paul Scofield carries the film...
...women's proposal was made in response to a particular assignment in a particular course and should not be taken out of context. We particularly regret that the signers of the letter have used their authority as linguists to deride a social comment without discussing the specific point involved. Sarah E. Thompson Donna Jo Furrow Janet Fodor Dwight Bolinger Paole Valesio M.D. Lee Linda Shumaker Jonathan Cooper
...torrent of words raised in celebration or regret has necessarily dealt in fragments. The scope of the war, the vast numbers of lives involved, make any whole accounting of it impossible. In some ways, the best hope for a unified dramatic impression lies in fiction. Yet American war novels so far have ranged from broad-gauged pop, with legions of far-flung participants (Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, 1948), to hysterically myopic, if sometimes heartbreakingly funny indictments of war as madness (Catch-22, 1961). In between, slogging platoons and companies (led by Sergeants Mailer and Jones) glumly pressed...