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Communists were cocky, moderates jittery as France held her referendum on the Constitution of the Fourth Republic. Wiseacres had predicted that most citizens were fed up with seven months of wrangling in the Assembly, that popular disgust with politics would be reflected in a light vote, that the disciplined Left would profit from public apathy, that the way was paved for a solid "Yes" vote on the Communist-sponsored Constitution. The result would be a one-chamber government and a probable party-machine dictatorship...
...Raphaelites had never gotten along too well. Seventy years ago Harvard's eloquent art professor Charles Eliot Norton came back from vacations in England and talks with Ruskin to preach the Pre-Raphaelite gospel. His lectures were crowded because his courses were regarded as a cinch; Norton, in disgust at his lack of conversions, told his students that they were just "roughnecks." His enthusiasm for the P.R.B. boys, however, caught one young student, Grenville Lindall Winthrop, who was a wealthy retired lawyer when he died in 1943. Winthrop left his art collection (6,000 art objects, including the spate...
...Donald Adams is usually a mild-mannered and stolid citizen. But the more he looked at a paragraph of literary doubletalk in a current poetry magazine, the more it "acted as bellows to my smouldering disgust." He was really burning by the time he got down to writing his Sunday column in the New York Times Book Review. Wrote he: the trouble with poetry today is the way most critics write about it. "They worry at poetry like a terrier with a rat. They are bleeding it to death...
...weeks now I have been viewing the contents of your Art page with a passive feeling of disgust...
...spent 18 months after college as a research man for the Wisconsin Telephone Co., then "quit in disgust" and went to work for the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. Soon he was borrowed by the Federal Communications Commission to help investigate the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. His reputation as a utilities expert grew. At 30, as the Tennessee Valley Authority's manager of power operations, he negotiated the famed Commonwealth & Southern purchases with Wendell Willkie...