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After reading Henry Buhler's letter in your Letters column [Dec. 30], I felt I had more cause to cry in disgust than...
Communists who had joined the party out of sheer disgust at governmental corruption. Said George Marshall: "Successful action on their part under the leadership of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek would, I believe, lead to unity through good government...
Infernal Cycle Closed. Picasso, said Art Critic Rene Rennes, is "working on some very large paintings . . . and it must be said that the spirit of these works constitutes a new phase in the history of Picasso. Ever since the disgust and indignation expressed in Guernica, his canvases have been more or less in the same idiom-the expression of murder and barbarism, [but] at Antibes Picasso has closed the infernal cycle of Guernica. Luminous Mediterranean skies replace the black sun of Spain at war. Centaurs play pipes and an inspired woman, a sort of Goddess of Joy, dances...
Stubborn, high-strung Ted Schroeder, ex-Navy flyer and onetime U.S. singles champion (in 1942), never could sleep soundly the night before a big tennis match. Sometimes he got out of bed in disgust and ate a 4 a.m. breakfast. Last week, the hot, humid weather in Melbourne was no help. And it was no help either that he was the unexpected dark-horse choice to help Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 30) win the Davis Cup back from the Australians...
...straws for the dean of Beacon Street was the simultaneous award last June of honorary Doctor of Laws degrees to four of the nation's top war commanders. When Generals MacArthur and Marshall return to pick up the two additional degrees promised them in their absence, Mr. Sargent's disgust will probably be complete. It has a right to be. Not only did the University go out of its way to kowtow to the brass, but its entire handling of the honorary degree situation served, not to enhance Harvard's prestige, but rather to bring it down to the sorry...