Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of last month's Harlem and Rochester violence, there was a wide new wave of concern across the country about race relations. National shock and disgust had erupted after Birmingham, but now a different and sometimes bewildered sense of trouble crept through the public consciousness. Perhaps because many minds had long equated the South with racial violence, there was something terrifying about the discovery that it could happen on a large scale in the North...
Christian should express disgust, replied, "A Christian should express disgust at anything indecent, but short of that, the less disapproval the better...
...Branco is determined to put his country's economic house in order once and for all. To do the job, he has chosen Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 47, a brilliant economist and diplomat, who was Brazil's Ambassador to Washington until last December, when he quit in disgust at Goulart. As Minister of Economic Planning, Campos knows just how big a task he faces. In 31 months of Goulart, the value of the cruzeiro plummeted 83%, and the cost of living rose 340%. The confidence that had always helped Brazil grow in spite of itself disappeared...
Multiple Betrayals. Fuentes vivisects this dying body of corruption to excite disgust and detestation in the reader. The reveries of Cruz take in a cruel, gaudy life that spans the Revolution. He remembers himself as a barefoot boy in Veracruz blasting the face off a frock-coated oppressor with a shotgun; as a fugitive in Sonora; as a liberator on horseback defeating the federal artillery. He takes a hacienda for the people and the haciendado's daughter for himself. He becomes a general, begins to enrich himself. The betrayals are multiple, and by the time Fuentes lets...
Operation Madeleine. Ferré's songs evoke a complex feeling. Their mood is an absorbing compromise between optimism and disgust, and they have an ironic strength that makes their message as clear as a scream in the street. Though Ferré is a natural-born plaintiff, his songs never argue that life is absurd. "Despair," he says, "is a way of hiding things from one's self." Life is not pointless, just outrageously wrong...