Enright but disappointed him by riding uptown with manager of Waldorf.
The compromise reached this week in St . Paulwas not going to do that, a fact that Mr. Dayton said disappointed him.
The whole experience was just too nerve-wracking, and I probably hurt the guy, too, or at least disappointed him.
Although the published results have, more often than not, disappointed him, they have not deterred him from further fraternization with the press; when I was interviewing him, in 1992 and 1993, he would regularly mention other interviews he was giving.
As new buildings and planning disappointed him, so he turned to the world of books, journalism and television, and away from architects themselves.
(The particular shark Meyer has in mind, I suspect, is Frank Bruni, the Times critic, whose two-star reviews of Eleven Madison Park and the Modern disappointed him).
The affectionate but critical description of Isaiah Berlin, a friend and colleague who both inspired and disappointed him, is particularly gripping.Most of the book is about Mr Pipes's post-war life in America, loved austerely but gratefully.
I asked whether President Obama, who said at a Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration that the civil rights movement was partly about "changing people's hearts and minds and breaking out of old customs and old habits," had disappointed him given that the president is a triumph of civil rights himself.
He said this disappointed him as he thought it disrespectful.
