Word: disgustful
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...half self-satire. The "Black Prince," as he calls himself in mockery, is a mannered, deadly literary duelist who slices fellow students and blundering adults into home fries with razor-edged misquotations. The Black Prince is a devilish smoker of cigarettes and a virgin, who is torn between self-disgust at this fault and contempt for the mawkishness of teen-age passion...
...clients can request. Business is strictly legitimate-hands off, no dates. Former prostitutes are allowed to work at the Orchid, but if they are caught soliciting they are asked to leave. A few girls think the whole idea is rather kinky. As No. 32, who has since quit in disgust, admits, "Working here did amazing things to my ego. I don't have that good a body, but men kept complimenting me. I had visions of being Raquel Welch. I had regular customers that I had to arrange classes around. I always came over here after lunch and work...
This cycle is particularly offensive as it works itself out on Edmund Wilson. She came into his life when Mary McCarthy had just moved herself and her furniture out of their apartment. Very vulnerable, he was taken with Anais Nin. All the while that she was scribbling her disgust for him in her diary, she seems to have been egging him on. Her distaste seems to have been rooted in her allying him with her father, with authority, discipline, and history, all of the powers which fill her with terror. "Father, man, critic, enemy of the artist," she says...
...that "Camelot" could not have been without Cambridge. John F. Kennedy relied heavily on advice from Harvard faculty members, both during the campaign and in the White House. Similarly, the stunning performance by Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire in 1968 was certainly aided by Harvard professors and their disgust with the war. But those optimistic days have passed, and the Harvard faculty may be abandoning its enthusiasm for the political dogfight. Although McGovern, Muskie and McCarthy have some support here, speeches and position papers no longer command the high priority they once...
Arizona Congressman Morris K. Udall, for one, feels that "people are becoming satiated with sports." Last March he introduced a bill to restrict the TV coverage of professional sports to specified seasons before "the public turns away from the sporting world in a wave of apathy and disgust." Udall's bill has about as much chance of passage as the California Golden Seals have of winning this year's Stanley Cup. Nonetheless, as the World Series spills over into the football, basketball and hockey seasons, team owners, players and fans alike might ponder the possibility of sports overkill...