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...ORWELL was not a holy fool. Trilling and many others have presented him as a naive figure, who blundered upon the crucial questions of his age without understanding them and then passed through successive waves of disgust and disillusionment, finally reaching a nadir of despair at which he wrote 1984 and died. There is a grain of truth in this concept, but only a grain. Orwell picked up his political education in bits and pieces, on the run; he toyed in print with ideas he would later reject. But he came to understand political life in its concrete details...
...writing to express my outrageous disgust with the meeting held last night in Sanders Theatre and Lowell Lecture Hall. My intention is not to discuss the content of the various proposals that were passed but rather to take issue with their validity. It was the intention of that meeting to consider and vote on various proposals that were to reflect the sentiment of the Harvard community. However, I would maintain that to say that all of the proposals are supported by a majority of the Harvard student body is as absurd as the manner in which they were passed...
TOMORROW'S Massachusetts primary offers us another opportunity to express our disgust with the latest escalation of the war in Southeast Asia by giving an overwhelming majority to the two Democratic candidates genuinely committed to ending American military involvement there, Sen. George S. McGovern (D.S.D.) and Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D.N.Y.) alone in a generally uninspiring Democratic field, display a determination to change Nixon policy that is not believable and possible. They deserve the support of all those who are fed up with Vietnamization, protective reaction bombing, and anti-communist puppet regimes in Saigon...
Even more telling is a graphic film documentary called La Guerre d'Algérie, which is playing to packed houses in Paris. Reliving the war has proved to be a shattering experience for many viewers, and reactions range from stunned silence to horror and disgust. Shouts of "Salaud!" (bastard) fill the theater when former Premier Guy, Mollet is shown defending his policy of keeping draftees in the army for 30 months instead of the legal term of 18 months. "When the lights go on at the end of the film, you sit there crushed, speechless, heartsick," wrote Critic...
...those songs in which he shows off his sense of black humor, the comic is always mixed with a deep-seated sense of disgust. "Motel Blues," whose lyrics are almost more tears than words, is his best example of stark dissatisfaction and yearning, in this case, for a lover...