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...Trevor Gardner, longtime Republican, guided-missiles specialist and onetime (1955-56) Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development, who quit his job in disgust with the slow pace of the missiles program, said he would "vote the straight Democratic ticket." ¶The Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which endorsed Eisenhower-Nixon in 1952, polled the editors of its 19 papers for 1956 sentiments, got back a unanimous repeat endorsement...
Prokofiev: Love for Three Oranges (members of the Slovenian National Opera conducted by Bogo Leskovich; Epic, 2 LPs). The fairy-tale opera whose failure when first produced by the Chicago Opera Association in 1921-22 caused Prokofiev to leave the U.S. in dismay and disgust. (Twenty-seven years later it was a big success at the New York City Opera.) This recording is in Russian, but the performance is high-spirited and technically brilliant...
...latest outbursts of racial violence in the South have filled me with shame and disgust. This mob violence and mass hysteria has no justification and to poison the minds of children with hatred and bigotry is nothing less than atrocious! Instead of hanging effigies, these mobs should hang their heads in shame...
Eager friends of Border-Stater Clement moved in fast on behalf of their man. Clement, quietly staked out in the Stevenson camp (to the disgust of Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver), was generally acceptable to both North and South because of his "local-level" approach to school desegregation. Far more important than these attitudes was the fact that Boy Wonder Clement is a golden-throated political evangelist with an inexhaustible gift for fervent oratory (see box) and surefire TV appeal...
...days observing other men's lives. In real life an Outsider type like Van Gogh lived 29 of his 36 years before he knew himself to be a painter. In a sense, the Outsider is a man waiting for his authentic vocation. But why does he turn in disgust from the "practical" house, wife-and children-minded world of his "bourgeois" (no Marxist connotations) fellow man? For Wilson, Nijinsky summed it up in his diary when he wrote: "The whole life of my wife and of all mankind is death." To Nijinsky and his fellow Outsiders, the average...