Word: disgustful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your story reminds me of the disgust I knew at age 14, in 1944 Germany, when Goebbels was crying for "total war." I believe there is no way out of the Viet Nam dilemma for Uncle Sam except to fight it through. But it depends on how you say it: you may stay American, or you may adopt the Hitler-youth mentality, as you do in that article. "New men are greeted at reception centers with brass bands," you boast. Can you have forgotten that the same was true in Auschwitz...
...exact replica of his icy self-concern. The clients with interchangeable faces that blur before his desk are a dossier of sins he has committed, or, in the case of a homosexual, of a deviate impulse he may have suppressed. It is not surprising that his self-disgust and self-hatred prove contagious, and hat in the end everyone leaves him to stew in his own bile...
...emphasize the central theme of money. As his name suggests, in Johnson's original he is a "fly"--engagingly ingenious and quickwitted, but as unscruplous as the rest. In the course of Zweig's play, however, he turns from his original admiration of Volpone's riches and wiles to disgust at the power of money; having inherited his master's fortune, he chooses in the closing scene of the play to share it with the people of Venice...
...been rigged up so a few more Democratic Congressmen could be elected. Then there was his slowness on civil rights, which so exasperated those who went South with SNCC and those who heard about their troubles. There was Teddy, who snatched the 1962 Senatorial election, to everyone's great disgust, and Bobby the cold, Bobby the ruthless, trampling on civil liberties...
...some 600 sorties since Nov. 14), the South Vietnamese paras roared in behind the bomb blasts looking for "an opportunity to show their fighting skills." During their first day, they killed 180 Reds. Then the North Vietnamese pulled back to lick their wounds, much to the paratroopers' disgust. There was fighting in plenty, however, around the huge, abandoned Michelin rubber plantation near Dau Tieng, some 40 miles northwest of Saigon. When two Viet Cong battalions hit all four sides of a government encampment on Date Palm Hill, the South Vietnamese defenders hurled them back in vicious hand-to-hand...