Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beaky, more solid - and yet, elusive. His most recent series of massive limestone figures, which he Las been working on since 1965, emphasize his profound disillusionment with the state of the world. "If you look at the first page of the newspaper," says Ernst, "you feel such overwhelming disgust for everything going on in the world that you must echo this." In his gigantic stone monoliths, Ernst's angst becomes monumental. The figures are droll and disquieting, monstrous and enchanting. His mammoth Big Brother, wearing a visored cap, or his two Seraphim totems, sticking out their tongues, provoke laughter...
...Upon reading of TIME'S "Man of the Year" selection, my reactions were disbelief, disgust and finally agreement. I had thought the "Man of the Year" was a model leader who had furthered mankind's striving for a better world. I now understand this title to be the "Most Talked About Man of the Year." I must agree this is true...
Some trivial incident involving Pozdnyshev's wife-like drinking her tea too noisily-makes him "loathe her as though she were committing some hideous crime." In passage after passage, The Kreutzer Sonata reveals Tolstoy's disgust with marriage, which he felt was Sonya's way of gaining power over him. It is nothing but "legalized prostitution," says Pozdnyshev. Sonya's anger and humiliation were compounded by the fact that she had just borne her 13th child...
...went from bad to worse. Till it crashed. She walked away from the accident in disgust--"Passion, schmassion...
...rages on in Vietnam, America may force itself to listen to Edwin Reischauer. But he fears, and perhaps it is a reasonable fear, that with the end of the war, Americans may register their disgust with swamps and rice paddies and Viet Cong by refusing to tackle the larger problems of the most heavily-populated continent. As more and more Asian nations gain a sense of national identity, a new attack of American isolationism would trigger a reaction more tragic than all the absurd Vietnams and Laoses put together