Word: disgustful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlie Carmody is a gritty figure out of the immigrant past who clawed his way to wealth as a real estate operator. He can reminisce for hours on the joys of collecting, or extracting, the rent from hard payers. Charlie's son Hugh enters the priesthood, possibly in disgust at his father's tactics, but comes to hate his parishioners as much as he does his father, and dies of a hemorrhaging ulcer. Another son cravenly sponges off the old man. The eldest daughter becomes Charlie's spinster slave, while a spunkier daughter, Helen, marries a pompous...
...Cuban tractor deal were hotly debated in the U.S. (see THE NATION), but in Latin American eyes, the proposal represents a monumental propaganda setback for Castro. Throughout the hemisphere, which Castro hopes to lure into sympathy with his Marxist revolution, the response to his ransom demand was one of disgust. Wrote Rio's moderately liberal O Globo, whose circulation is the biggest in Brazil: "Hitler wanted to trade Jews for trucks; Fidel Castro wants to trade Cubans for tractors. It may be that this shows progress or superiority of Communism over Naziism, but we cannot...
...delay in the offering of tutorial in the natural sciences may be partly the result of a 1938 experiment: Physics tried tutorial instruction for one year and then abandoned it in disgust...
...Cuban invasion fell apart, the sympathy and understanding gave way to dismay and plain disgust. "Bad show," said the London Daily Mail-"a shocking blow to American prestige." British cartoonists smirked in print. Said a saddened government official in Bogotá: "The United States should not have allowed the invasion to start unless the chances of success were good." And Masaji Inoue, 31, a Tokyo office worker, mirrored the feeling of much of the free world: "America seems to have messed things up again...
Worst of all, La Dolce Vita fails to attract the moviegoer as much as it repulses him, fails to inspire his sympathies as well as his disgust. Everyman is passive throughout the picture, largely unconscious of the awful fate that is overtaking him. He therefore puts up no moral struggle against his fate, and without struggle there is no drama. Many spectators will be inclined to agree with the character who remarks in the concluding scene: "Mamma mia, what a disgusting mess...