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Chatterbox just caught up with a Boston Globe article containing the distressing news that Out-of-Town News, the famous Harvard Square newsstand, is losing business to the Internet.
The Times of London accused the prince of letting Britain and its royal family down "with a casual insult" made all the more distressing by the fact that the interview was designed to promote his own commercial interests.
In any case, one hardly hears anything else today but these can forms, which have somehow become the fashion: It can happen , We could be wrong . What we are therefore observing is the loss of a valuable distinction, and in fact the slow extinction of the verb may/might , an extinction which in the linguistic world seems to me just as distressing as the loss of the elephant in the zoological world.
The distressing thing for intellectuals of a Marxian bent is the failure of Marx's scenario for the collapse of capitalism (as presented in Volume I of Capital ) to come true.
This is all very distressing.