Word: disgustful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ladies are all charmingly indomitable; they perk up their spirits by writing letters to Adlai Stevenson, or by shocking the sensibilities of stuffy sons who want them to come and live in Darien. Novelist Stone believes firmly in the outlandishness of the usual. An eagle grounds itself in disgust after colliding with a construction workers' crane, and the locals try to fly the bird on a leash. The "X-er"-the man whose job it is to paint big Xs on the windows of condemned buildings-feels himself the personification of doom, gets so worked up over...
...indulge in their uniaersal passion for telling each other the oldest hoariest American chestnuts. (Even the Deacon succumbs to the weakness: Mole sombrely admonishes him, "Remember forewarned is forearmed," and Deacon sniggers "I suppose an Octopus is twice as well off?" As they walk away, Mole snorts with disgust and Deacon is tee-heeing to himself...
...large Northern cities, these reverse freedom riders do so as symbols of a perverted solution to problems which will continue to bother them for the rest of their lives. The Negroes who stay home to face the issue in hopes of finally solving it, can only view with disgust this new development...
...that O'Brien does not keep the goings on entirely in the cartoon world of outrageous literary parody and exaggeration where death, as Brendan Behan puts it, has lost its "sting-aling-aling." Grimy realism crops up occasionally. In Finnbar, fleeting touches of gentleness and humane disgust at the proceedings undercut the parody and encourage the reader to take him seriously as a man rather than a manikin. Even at that, O'Brien has made a point: burlesqued or not, life in Dublin is no bed of Four Roses...
...Concordat between the Vatican and Italy prescribes "respect of the sacred character of Rome." But, to the disgust of Pope John XXIII, many Roman revelers prefer a common law of their own: La Dolce Vita-the sweet life. Lately, seldom does a day pass when a newspaper he reads is not splashed with yet another scandal. Last week he appealed to temporal rulers of the Eternal City to control ''immorality that, as we are told, is raging in Rome no less than elsewhere...