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Joseph Gesualdo was angry. A veteran hoodlum facing murder and robbery charges resulting from a holdup in Long Beach, Calif., he had decided to dispense with a lawyer and conduct his own defense. After losing one ruling after another on the admissibility of evidence, Gesualdo gave up in disgust and announced he was resting his case. "What do you want to do with the remainder of your exhibits?" inquired the judge. Gesualdo shot back: "Give them to the Salvation Army...
...people thrive on ignorance, doubt and supicion. Truth is radical; it works like water gently seeping, eating away at the structures of oppression. I no longer think of a university as necessarily a staging ground for the Kissingers; I think the Kissingers pervert the meaning of a university. My disgust for Harvard is no longer so general. It is directed at the Kissingers, the Bundys and the McNamaras and their apologists who murder and lie and then smugly smirk behind the liberal values they maintain...
GALLOWS HUMOR is a delicate thing. Any one who has loitered outside Mem Hall waiting for an exam to begin knows that feeling of disgust when the inevitable clown makes the usual jokes while you frantically try to remember just what in hell the War of Jenkins' Ear was. It's not the idea of comic relief that bothers you, it's those awful jokes. Black humor, more than any other type of humor, has to be very sharp to succeed at all. It must present an absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify...
...Swiftian Disgust. Percy does not fully avoid liability for such beliefs. He clearly uses Lancelot's Swiftian disgust at the "whorehouse and fagdom of America" to score points against contemporary permissiveness. One sometimes wonders just how loony Percy's hero is intended to be. Is it probable that a canny good ole boy like Lancelot would go violently round the bend at the news of his wife's cheating...
...rising costs "disgust me," James S. Barlow '79, said yesterday. Barlow said he worries about next year when his younger brother enters Harvard. Paying for both students will absorb about half the family's income unless they qualify for financial aid, Barlow said...