Word: disgustful
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...right read in the verdict a repudiation of the valor and honor of all American fighting men in Viet Nam. If the alliance was odd, the effect might be odder still. It was too soon to be certain, but there was seemingly a new readiness, born of disgust and weariness on both sides, to hasten the end of American participation in Indochina...
...worth nothing that the disruption was not solely the work of a small, disciplined group of demonstrators who came to the auditorium convinced that they would not hear what the speakers wanted to say. Many went to the meeting with no intention of disrupting-planning, rather, to make their disgust felt in other ways-but found them-selves unable to contain their hatred for officials of the U.S. government and its Asian puppets...
...next sequence Frank tries to keep the audience from taking the movie simply, therefore irresponsibly. He shows people watching Me and My Brother in a theater. Several turn away from the movie and leave in disgust, saying "This is a boring movie. The whole Orlovsky family bores me." Then another member of the audience turns round to the camera and says "Gee. I like this. This is really a wonderful movie!" Neither is this a way to see the movie, for Me and My Brother is obviously not simply good...
...wrangle time in the literary jungle. First blood was drawn when the National Book Awards' fiction judges refused to list Erich Segal's bestseller Love Story. Poet Allen Ginsberg, one of the five poetry judges, made known his disgust with his fellow panelists' selection of Mona Van Duyn's To See, To Take by burning incense during the award announcements and castigating the choice as "ignominious, insensitive and mediocre." Miss Van Duyn riposted with a metaphor about a rest-room wall covered with dirty words along with a heart enclosing the names of lovers. "I notice...
...THEN, as Sutherland quickly explains, as far as he's concerned pushing MGM's Paul Mazurky-directed Alex in Wonderland, is just an excuse for him to voice his support for the Peace Treaty and his disgust with the war. So while his two-day visit to Boston includes a day-long round of interviews, tapings and television appearances, it primarily centers on a fund-raising cocktail party with Noam Chomsky speaking against the war and Sutherland reading passages from Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Get Your Gun, the money raised going to support various drives to bring the People...