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...jobs of a wage-price board will be to prove that that fear is unfounded by leaning hard on any corporate violators of the price guidelines. If that is done, unions may yet cooperate reluctantly with Phase II. If not, the Nixon Administration, which has often underestimated the rising disgust that many working people feel about the outrageous demands of some union leaders, may have to take off the gloves and appeal for broad public support in a knockdown confrontation between the Administration and big labor...
Even more intense is the students' disgust with the lycée emphasis on rigid classical learning. Although gifted survivors of the grind emerge with sharply honed minds, today's students are increasingly unable to see any connection between their mnemonic classes and the skills they will need as 20th century adults. Children from eleven to 15 are required to recite entire scenes from the plays of Corneille, Moliere and Racine, plus a spate of La Fontaine's Fables. Even in top classes, pupils must memorize statistics on agricultural, industrial and energy production for long lists...
...highly trained men still active in the astronaut program have any hopes of getting a space flight in the next few years-nine on the three remaining Apollo shots and nine on the three Skylab missions, scheduled to begin in 1973. Many astronauts have already quit in disgust. The latest: Walt Cunningham, a member of the first manned Apollo flight, who coupled his resignation last week with a sharp blast at what he sees as growing U.S. indifference to space ventures. Within the astronaut ranks, there is even greater cause for complaint. The twelve remaining scientist-astronauts, recruited amid considerable...
Blum pointed to the writings of John Hersey and Norman Mailer '43 to explain the widening sense of disgust in which war is viewed. He cited the late General George Patton as the prototype of the "unintellectual" warrior, interested only in destruction...
...artist and teacher, I view the Andy Warhol machine with no other emotion than disgust. Although I admire Mr. Warhol's attempt to portray his environment in the indiscriminate manner of a ditto machine, I would suggest that he spend a little less time fondly fingering our cultural excrement. The concern should be with changing...