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...opportunity of observing at least one gentleman who is evidently in the some unfortunate position: during the three quarters of an hour in which I strove to read, he slept soundly and somewhat heavily in his chair, and was still asleep when I finally gave up and left in disgust... Varian Fry '30 Harvard CRIMSON, January...
Eleanor Roosevelt came away from the Broadway hit version of Advise and Consent filled with "depression and disgust," she reported in her syndicated column. "I know how ruthless and how utterly discouraging politics can be. I think I know how to remember one's friends and how to fight against one's enemies. But I have seen this done without stealing, without doublecrossing and without threats." Particularly worried by the impression the show might make on Manhattan-based U.N. delegates, the one-time First Lady angrily declared: "If this were wartime, I think one would cry treason...
...palace shouting "Elections-down with Communism-out with fellow travelers." President Osvaldo Dorticos offered to talk to Fraginals if the demonstrators dispersed, and Fraginals told his men to hold union headquarters against possible police attack. Fraginals waited in the palace for hours to see the President, then left in disgust...
...gradual revelation of Vogler's disgust with the world (visually depicted by the carefully-directed progression from impenetrability to utter weariness in his facial expression) occurs while a committee of cynical officials reviews the troupe's act to see whether it is suitable for the towns-folk. The enertainers--a youthful coachman, the cunning and comical manager, Tubal, Vogler's wife disguised as a man, and an old hag who claims to be a witch 200 years old--then go off on their own to adventures both comic and serious, romantic and metaphysical...
...good grades in engineering. Recalls Professor Richard L. Richardson: "On his second day of school as a freshman, Terry raised his hand and asked if the homework amounted to nothing more than it appeared to be. I said 'No,' and he shook his head in disgust. Everybody in the class gave him a foul look as if to say, 'What are you doing here, fella?' " Richardson had barely recovered from that shock when Baker confided that he was thinking of switching to Stanford where the studies might be more challenging...