Word: disgustful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life sells his soul." As a corollary, he who accepts the conditions of life-as Genet accepts the worst life can dish out-presumably finds his soul. The discovery would disconcert most men. Genet indeed suggests that he has fulfilled the Baudelairean aspiration to "inspire universal horror and disgust." Few books are so thoroughly nasty and disquieting as Miracle of the Rose...
...service of so many thousands of madmen that my memories alone would fill a whole insane asylum," Céline said. The novel was such an asylum. It seemed less a novel than a charade by a troupe of epileptics-convulsed by spasms of lust, rage, fear and disgust but denied the unconsciousness that is the mercy accorded the epileptic. It was clear to most critics that it was a work of genius...
...that answered the Secretary's admission that he didn't know how many civilian casualties U.S. troops had caused. Many students who heard McNamara Monday could only describe him in superlatives -- "one of the most callous, arrogant men I have ever seen," said one. So intense was two students disgust that they were prepared at first to dump bloody bones at the Secretary's feet as a gesture of protest...
...Senator Kennedy's less than subtle, self-emulatory campaign and his image-making political antics disgust the rational, intelligent voter and remind one of Abe Lincoln's familiar quote: "You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time...
...much the Commonwealth could do about it. Before they went home, however, the leaders of 16 former British possessions in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean broke ranks with Wilson, made use of the official conference communique-traditionally a bland document saying nothing-to register their disagreement and disgust...