Word: disgustful
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...novel calculated to disgust, Tattoo the Wicked Cross succeeds in its primary objective. Its subjects are prison, prestige and pederasty, more or less in that order, and will remind readers of the works of Jean Genet (The Blacks, Miracle of the Rose), celebrant of sodomy in the bastilles of modern France...
...daily from her back door, shrilled: "But where do I take it?" Many took it to their front sidewalks, but since sanitation-department drivers-good unionists all-refused to violate the picket lines, ripening hillocks of garbage forced nose-holding pedestrians into the street. Some West Siders demonstrated their disgust by instituting communal "toss-outs," and the heaps of cans, bottles and more malodorous detritus on the streets made much of the city look more like Marrakesh than Manhattan. Atop a garbage heap near Park Avenue stood a sour sign: "Fun City...
...beyond personal confession, his condemnations are far beyond "protest." His most immediate concerns with war or injustice are never merely topical but involved with the greatest and most permanent themes-life, death, love and grace. His anger is hot, but it is never unshaded by compassion. His disgust with the times is great, but it is never unqualified by a sense of the past. He knows that evil as well as good is in specific men, but also that it is in all men; that it is today, but also that it was yesterday...
...fact they often went bankrupt, and some of the towns themselves disappeared. Two San Francisco papers, the California Star and the Californian, folded overnight when the city was emptied by the 1848 gold rush. William J. Forbes, who published the Virginia City (Nev.) Daily Trespass, gave up in disgust. "Of 20 men," he said, "19 patronize the saloons and one the newspaper, and I am going with the crowd." He opened a saloon. But when he had built up a sufficient stake, he once again started a newspaper...
...because white colleges would not admit black students. Dependent largely upon whites for financial survival, the schools have never been aggressive in attacking segregation. For officials of these colleges, "the result was usually self-contempt, born either from acceptance of the white view that Negroes were inferior or from disgust at having succumbed silently to an outrageous injustice, or from both." Their schools became "an ill-financed, ill-staffed caricature of white higher education...