Word: disgust
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...feel compelled to express my disgust with the handling of the Art section of TIME...
Chosen to head the revolutionary government: José Miró Cardona, 58, a respected Havana lawyer, whose credentials are as good in Cuba as they are in the United States. Miró Cardona was Fidel Castro's first Prime Minister but quit in anger and disgust after 39 days. Never much of a politician, Miró Cardona leads no movement of his own and promises to serve only until elections, for which he will not be a candidate. When and if the council manages to win a piece of Cuban soil, Provisional President Miró Cardona will move...
...Gulliver (Morningside; Columbia). Dean Jonathan Swift of Dublin Cathedral, who in 1729 made "a modest proposal" that the children of the poor should be fattened like cattle and then eaten by the rich, might well be wickedly amused to hear that Gulliver's Travels, his epic of disgust for men and all their works, survives as a charmingly fantastic just-out-of-the-nursery tale that has delighted generations of the little Yahoos he detested. Satirist Swift would, however, hardly be amused by this film, which with commerce aforethought, scissors his plot and ruthlessly modernizes his ironic allegory...
...every outfit-the sniveling, creepy little muckup who not only fails to pull his weight but manages to add it to the load carried by others. In his third novel, Author Peter Matthiessen, 33, has pinned him to the page as the prototype of the heel who arouses disgust in better men but touches off something uneasily protective in the best of them...
...orphanage, never knew a decent woman, never had a chance. He ducks his sea duty and Charlie Stark fills in for him. He is loud, cowardly, physically repulsive and yet arrogant. In a sensitive character probe which recalls the sharp male insights of Joseph Conrad, Author Matthiessen shows how disgust and almost unwilling compassion are at war in civilized Charlie Stark and how compassion always wins. Raditzer's only defense against the naked revulsion of his fellows is the claim that Stark is his buddy. And Stark, admired by everyone and abused by his protege, refuses to let Raditzer...