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...help but express my disgust for Artzybasheff's picture on the June 8 cover. It was way below . . . the usually good products of his pen and brush...
Harvard's Joseph Hudnut, 67, dean of the Graduate School of Design. A shy, mild-mannered man, Hudnut started out as a designer of gothic churches, later, in disgust, switched to modern ("I could never manage romantic old graveyards"). He denounced many a U.S. public building: the National Gallery was a "death mask of an ancient culture," the Jefferson Memorial "an egg on a pantry shelf in . . . a geometric Sahara," Grant's Tomb a "ponderous, huge monster." With Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, he turned Harvard into the top school of modern architecture...
Storming the village, the terrorists butchered everyone in sight; the corpses of 250 Arabs, mostly women and small children, were later found tossed into wells. Shamefacedly, the Jewish Agency (the shadow government) announced its "horror and disgust at the barbarous manner in which this action was carried out" and cabled the statement to Jordan's King Abdullah, leader of the Arab coalition. (Three months later, fed up with the terrorists' irresponsibility, the Haganah itself fought a pitched battle with the Irgun troops, forced them to disband as a private army...
Slowly all the poetry went out of piro-peando. In recent years, girls have had to listen to such blunt acclaim as "Hey, Mamacita!" or "What a chicken!" In disgust, Maracaibo's prefect made piropos punishable with a loo-bolivar ($30) fine, which brought a new piropo into fashion: "If I only had 100 bolivars...
Europeans have a phrase for this official myopia-"the Uranium Curtain." Inherent in those words are all the scorn, the disgust, and suspicion which Europeans feel when their educators, their scientists, and their other leading men of affairs and letters are refused entry to this country. Think, for a moment, of what would happen if a number of leading American industrialists were refused visas for travel in Europe because they did not think "straight" on Korea. The bellows from the halls of Congress would dwarf in noise, if not in idealism, the fabled shot heart round the world...