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Eight casinos, all but one operated by foreigners, who give the state 63% of the profits, are now available to foreign visitors-to the disgust of some orthodox party types. "Yugoslavia's flag should be two crossed croupier rakes on a green baize field," grumbled one in print recently. Tourists also like girls, and the Yugoslavs have obliged with unaccustomed socialist thoroughness: striptease acts so exciting and uninhibited that one goggle-eyed Italian journalist reported that "the Yugoslavs have traded Goulash Communism for Pelvis Communism...
Filled with rage and outrage, Waugh in his middle 20s gave tongue to his disgust in Decline and Fall (1928) and Vile Bodies (1930). The world these books describe is the world Eliot called the waste land and Yeats described as a "mere anarchy" in which "The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity." Waugh's people are the Bright Young Things of London's high society, people who ride to hounds while the world is going to the dogs. Waugh loathes them because they have betrayed the aristocratic ethos, and he depicts...
...expect instead was foreshadowed last week after Humphrey declared that the U.S. should "take every opportunity to show our friendship for the Chinese." Inoffensive as it was, Humphrey's statement was denounced by Peking as the "kiss of Judas," with the warning that it "cannot fail to disgust the Chinese people and make us maintain utmost vigilance...
Tyranny & Greed. The reasons are not hard to find. Once they got into power, Africa's heroic independence leaders let their nations down. To the growing disgust of the populations and military alike, the new regimes began restricting political freedoms instead of broadening them, bleeding their nations instead of building them, dividing their peoples instead of uniting them. Nkrumah was a petulant oppressor who demanded constant adulation for himself and the wild schemes that all but sent his country into bankruptcy. In Nigeria, Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, although personally respected, presided over a conspicuously corrupt regime that...
...wake of the latest round of coups, Lord Caradon worried aloud that "people are going to say: 'These miserable little places should never have been allowed to exist.' They are going to reject these nations with disgust. That would be a bloody disaster." Nations have to begin somehow; occasionally just plain good luck comes along to give them a boost. A few years ago, feudal Libya was written off as a hopeless non-nation-until oil was found floating beneath the deserts. Barren Mauritania may yet bloom from the rich iron and phosphate deposits in its crust. Some...