Word: disgustful
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Much as Dulles and Nixon and Charlie Wilson bored and irritated Eisenhower, Hughes says he was provoked to real anger and disgust only by the clowns and rogues who populated Congress: Knowland, Bricker, Dirksen, Milliken, McCarthy. On the subject of Mr. Bricker and his Amendment, Eisenhower waxed especially splenetic: at a Cabinet meeting in early April, 1953, "the President, listening to the latest accounts of trying to appease Bricker, cried in anguish, 'I'm so sick of this I could scream. The whole damn thing is senseless and plain damaging to the prestige of the United States. We talk about...
...surrendering the card, the omnivorous machine snaps at Danny's black knit tie and starts dragging him into its transistorized innards. Like a hooked tarpon, Danny runs with the line, is reeled back in, leaps, dives, tail-walks, snaps free just as he is coming to gaff. In disgust, the Master File starts spitting application cards at him until the room is ankle deep in a paper blizzard, with drifts backing up against the chilly air-conditioning ducts...
...satirist, Lillian Hellman can still be cuttingly observant despite the familiarity of her targets, but she lacks the moral suasion of satire that comes from being half in love with what one loathes, cherishing the sinner while hating the sin. Her transparent disgust with her characters and all their works is contagious. Technically, she borrows from Edward Albee and the theater of the absurd, but the wobbly tone of her play shows that craft will not close a gap between generations. Lillian Hellman is still an arrested child of the '30s, and of its idée fixe that...
...remaining character, Sylvia Bernstein (Jane Wingert), I'm not convinced the play needs another nymphomaniac, but Miss Wingert is the only member of the cast whose disgust with Cambridge is at all compelling...
...vanishing, and with them will vanish one dimension of the nation's life. The small town had its defects as a place to live in, and urban Americans who know it only from the pages of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and other look-back-in-disgust fiction-eers are likely to think of the small town only as narrow, ingrown, stunting. But for many, life there had its compensations -countryside within walking distance, acquaintances rather than hurrying strangers on the streets, and a serenity that city dwellers cannot even imagine...