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Posthumous Appeal. Italian newspapers were suggesting that the strategy of Viterbo might be the only way out. Some Deputies showed their disgust by casting ballots for Movie Star Sophia Loren and an 88-year-old actress named Emma Gramatica. One man dropped his laundry list in the ballot box, another a letter from his wife, a third a job request from a constituent. One Deputy made a posthumous appeal to the late great Christian Democratic Premier Alcide de Gasperi by writing on his ballot: "De Gasperi, save Italy...
...rise of the Nazis, Beckmann began painting triptychs, turning his medieval altarpiece form into a public billboard. His first, Departure, peopled by dismembered captives, masked lords and indifferent servants, was done during the first year of Hitler's rule. It was Beckmann's Guer nica, his disgust at the terror then brutalizing his own country. By the time he had fled to Amsterdam in 1937, the Nazis had removed 509 of his works, declared decadent, from German museums...
...cause of contemporary art falls flat. He overestimates his forebears. When an Italian dramatist named Guiseppe Giacosa visited the United States in 1898, he proclaimed that "the primative measurement of works of art in terms of dollars and cents in the United States leaves me with a sense of disgust. I remember a visit to the home of a very rich collector of pictures in New York. He accompanied me himself, set me at the best point of view before each item, and declaimed in Ciceronian accents: 'Corot, ten thousand dollars; Millet, fifteen thousand...
...volunteers arrived, they continued to alienate Mississippians. Their attitude seemed to be one of disrespect toward the white Mississippi way of life. Instead of observing codes of conduct common not only to Mississippi, but to the rest of the United States, they openly flouted these codes, showing their disgust for them. A prime example of this was the shabby appearance of the workers, who appeared in ublic unshaven, unclean, and dressed in a poor manner. This was a common sight during the summer and one which disgusted every Mississippian who saw them. I thought the workers were supposed to create...
...cynics are saying-and they are probably right--that a Mississippi jury will never consider convicting the alleged murderers of James Chancy, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. It is a repellent thought, but disgust should not blind us to the possible significance of the FBI arrests; they may well mark a successful end to the first phase of Mississippi's Negro revolution...