Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...harangue each other in the supposedly real theater of Arthur Miller. Of course people do not speak in asides ("I'll have her yet!"), which were accepted on the stage for decades, nor in a Joycean stream of consciousness, which is accepted today. People do not mumble their disgust with the universe while sitting in ashcans, as do the characters of Samuel Beckett. Nor, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti has pointed out, do they have faces half a block wide, as they do on movie screens. In short, the complaint that an art form is unrealistic is the poorest...
...describes a political organization ridden with tension and rent by personal feuds. He pictures the Goldwater effort as crippled by disunity and lack of planning. His disgust runs so deep that at one point he observes, in certain exaggeration, "Almost every unfortunate incident of the campaign could have been prevented by adequate advance planning. In the confusion and uncertainty that actually prevailed, it is perhaps miraculous that Goldwater did as well...
...years later, Goethe suffered another creative commotion, and in less than three weeks produced The Sorrows of Young Werther, a novel that swept across Europe "like the Blue Plague"-a reference to the blue frock coat that Werther wore and that millions of young men now affected. To the disgust of their elders, they also went in for such Wertherisms as poetry, suicide and (horror of horrors in 18th century Germany) nude swimming...
...Vietnamese saying has it that "a man born in Nghe An province will oppose anything." That is where Ho was born, in 1890, when France dominated Indo-China-much to the disgust of Ho's father, a scholarly colonial employee who was fired by the French for his "patriotic" activities. After schooling in Hué and Saigon, Ho (then known as Nguyen Tat Thanh) headed for Europe in 1912 as a cabin boy on a French steamer. After a brief apprenticeship at London's Carlton Hotel under the famed chef Escoffier, Ho drifted on to Paris...
...TULA. A beautiful spinster (Aurora Bautista) is tormented by mixed desire and disgust for her widowed brother-in-law in Spanish Director Miguel Picazo's impeccable first film, an essay on the rigors of virginity Castilian style...