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...April 1939, Pound set off on a "mercy mission" to the U.S. to bring "Franklin Finkelstein Roosevelt" to his senses. When the President refused to see him, he returned to Italy in disgust and began to air his half-baked ideas and bigotry over Radio Rome. Between January 1941 and September 1943, he made 125 broadcasts...
Perhaps Mr. Stedman hit upon the problem without realizing it. Even if Section 18 did win the Stedman seal of approval, would that excuse the behavior of "the politely applauding Hahvahd alums, parents and administrators?" How many of these fans voice their disgust at a penalty to a Harvard defenseman? How many join in singing a chorus of "Yo-Ho" (how many even know the words)? How many cannot even muster up enough enthusiasm to yell "Go Harvard!"? Despite numerous efforts by the band at the Cornell game to enlist the cheering support of the Harvard fans, many seemed incapable...
...millions of Americans expressed disgust with politicians of every stripe and party, Congress at last was forced to try to make the elections clean-or at least cleaner. The result was the ambitious, complicated, confusing and inconsistent compromise that was signed into law on Oct. 15, 1974 by President Ford...
...eminence grise among living American artists, that man is Clyfford Still. The history of abstract expressionism, the movement that did most to coalesce the once frail identity of American art, is unimaginable without his vast Wagnerian canvases. But 15 years have passed since Still quit Manhattan in disgust for a ten-acre farm in Westminster, Md., and during that time his execrations of the "arrogant farce" of the art world-its neuroses, its museums, its critics, and their failure to come to grips with his work-have not ceased to be heard. He is the Coriolanus of painting...
...when he is content to remain in the third person, Amis is able to maintain a flat, detached tone that permits a parade of horrors to pass strangely muted, without arousing more than a vague disgust...