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Bikini or Blanket? Far from producing unity, Pearson's flag produced a parliamentary spectacle that Canadians came to look upon with disgust. No sooner had Pearson's minority Liberal government proposed the flag than it was under violent attack-chiefly by the opposition Conservative Party headed by ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, whose strategy apparently is to make it impossible for Pearson to govern. Diefenbaker set out to filibuster the flag to death. The Conservatives tore into the new flag as an insult to the "mother country," tagged it "Pearson's pennant," compared it to "the posterior...
...parties that generally support his minority government. Instead the debate raged on until Parliament was in chaos. Over a total 22 days of nonstop jabber, no fewer than 175 speeches were made, 117 of them by filibustering Conservatives. It got so bad that New Democrat Stanley Knowles rose in disgust. "We are making Parliament a side show," he said. And on that Mike Pearson finally had to agree...
...right-wing," anti-ecumenical Protestant clergyman, I tried to read your article on Richard Cardinal Gushing [Aug. 21] with proper disgust, but nostalgia got the best of me. Any Bostonian worth his salt cod has to be proud of this grand old man and his antics. Like our glorious Tea Party, he will always be part of my Boston. (THE REV.) R. W. NICKERSON Lisbon...
...wake of last month's Harlem and Rochester violence, there was a wide new wave of concern across the country about race relations. National shock and disgust had erupted after Birmingham, but now a different and sometimes bewildered sense of trouble crept through the public consciousness. Perhaps because many minds had long equated the South with racial violence, there was something terrifying about the discovery that it could happen on a large scale in the North...
Christian should express disgust, replied, "A Christian should express disgust at anything indecent, but short of that, the less disapproval the better...