Word: abhor
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...stubborn," Ben Shahn insists at 69. "I paint two things: what I love and what I abhor...
...Sandy is Sandy in whatever she does," says Playwright Muriel Resnik (Any Wednesday), but not surprisingly, herself-possession rubs some people the wrong way. Some actors dislike working with her, and one called her "a golden pain in the behind." They abhor her trademark mannerisms, the way she stutters and flutters her hands before uttering a line, as if about to goof it. Sandy is a constant hair pusher: in the first few minutes of Up the Down Stair case, she pushed three times. She is also an oral actress: a lip biter, tongue twitcher, mouth closer and chin wrinkler...
...those who complain that this is too much money, continued Johnson, "I would like to suggest that we cannot logically oppose the effects of poverty and the efforts to relieve them. We can not abhor the disease and then fight the cure." He also went out of his way to compliment the "able and inspiring" Sargent Shriver, the antipoverty czar. Besides having to endure indirect criticism from Brother-in-Law Bobby, Shriver has had his budget requests cut sharply, and faces a Republican campaign to disband his Office of Economic Opportunity entirely...
...does not enjoy the prospect. "I abhor giving speeches, I detest shaking hands, I detest in the most abominable manner signing autographs." And those babies, those terrible, drooling babies. But Vaughn wants to help, and he knows that his face and name may lend respectability to an anti-war movement which needs it. The effectiveness of the April 12 March in New York, in Vaughn's view, was riddled by tactical errors--a slate of controversial speakers, the wild forays of urban guerrillas and a contingent of exhibitionist hippies Being...
...where you got them) where not one million people were killed--if you took the figures of the Second World War it amounts to some figure that staggers the imagination. What we've got to do, what all of us have to work for, what all people who abhor the thought of war have got to do, is to try to work for an order where that will not be. Now that order cannot be by just wishing that that order can be. That order can only be if people work and take actions that will insure such a world...