Word: disgusted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks now I have been viewing the contents of your Art page with a passive feeling of disgust...
...spent 18 months after college as a research man for the Wisconsin Telephone Co., then "quit in disgust" and went to work for the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. Soon he was borrowed by the Federal Communications Commission to help investigate the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. His reputation as a utilities expert grew. At 30, as the Tennessee Valley Authority's manager of power operations, he negotiated the famed Commonwealth & Southern purchases with Wendell Willkie...
...referring to three of the University's most outstanding and revered teachers: the late George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland, and Bliss Perry. Of this famed English department triumvirate, Professors Copeland and Perry and emeritus; sometimes "Copey," (who now asks, with feigned disgust "why do you keep the Copey legend alive?") gives one of his spectacular readings for the Freshman class...
Mann would not be Mann (or German) if, having written this, he did not take a step back to view himself as critic. "The tendency toward selfcriticism, often to the point of self-disgust and self-execration, is thoroughly German. . . ." As an example of German selfcriticism, Mann recalls: "In conversation, at least, Goethe went so far as to wish for a German Diaspora. 'Like the Jews,' he said, 'the Germans must be transplanted and scattered over the world. ... In order to develop the good that lies in them...
Strange Fruit ran display ads quoting Senator Bilbo: "It should disgust you in stead of entertain you. Personally I would be ashamed to attend such a performance...