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Usually Greeks don't gripe in movie theaters. But last week in Athens packed houses were howling, hissing, booing and whistling in disgust. Zorba the Greek was having its first showings. What the audiences took most unkindly to were scenes that portrayed the people of a small village in Crete uniting to support the knife slaying of a young widow outside church and the robbing of a harlot on her deathbed. "Cretans should do something. This is disgraceful," declared Athens' daily Estia. The Pan-Cretan Union in Athens declared the film monstrous and insulting...
...Forman, his face twisted in a faintly childlike grimace. Again and again the photographers shoved him aside to snap a closeup of the doctor. Finally the SNCC field secretary stepped back a foot or two and plucked a shabby suit coat from a friend. With a huff of disgust, he yanked it on and buttoned it on over his soiled blue overalls. For a moment he lagged behind, morose and contemplative. Then, clapping his hands together, he lunged forward, linked arms with King and began to sing. "We Shall Overcome" echoed back through the ranks out into the streets...
...Wright's novel Native Son deals with an attack similar to the Wylie case [Feb. 5]. Fortunately, the outcome of Whitmore's case is extremely different, for the lawyers and jury of Wright's novel convicted the Negro suspect and sent him to his death. The disgust I felt after concluding Wright's novel was joy compared to my reaction to the Whitmore case...
...went to offense, charging a group that held blocking dummies in the position of the Yale defense. I realized that it was my first contact in a week as I went thundering into one of the sophomores. He threw down the blocking dummy in disgust--I had stepped...
...strain tells on the faculties. Florida State's President Gordon Blackwell leaves this month to become president of Furman University in Greenville, S.C., in evident disgust at the lack of scholarly independence. Similarly fed up with "academic frustration," George T. Harrell, dean of the college of medicine at Gainesville, has resigned to become head of the medical school at the University of Pennsylvania...