Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McComb, Miss., police had just finished escorting five battered Freedom Riders into a Greyhound bus (TIME, Dec. 8) when an onlooker turned in disgust to a group of newsmen. "Is anybody here from Jimmy Ward's paper?" he asked. "I want him to look at them niggers sitting in the front. What do you think Jimmy would have to say about that...
...Liaisons Dangerouses (Astor) is an offense against taste, a baldly commercial celebration of the Gallic religion of disgust. At the same time it is a wickedly funny comedy of promiscuities à la franqaise. The mixture seems sure to produce a succès de scandale...
Clearly, if there is sufficient evidence of police corruption to disgust the Governor and to send the city into a stew, Cardinal Cushing's defense can be dismissed as an irrational view of a question on which he simply was not qualified to pronounce. Unfortunately, the Cardinal has done more than speak out of turn; like the Protestant ministers who shouted loudly that police corruption is intolerable, he has helped to revive Boston's saddest and oldest religiously based controversy. The prelate and the policeman in his diocese can still remember when signs were hung announcing that "Drunken Irish need...
...doubt as to his opinion of it, Miller's tone is not one of bitter malice. He does not use his book as a revenge on the world; he is not reduced to cursing it in impotent rage. He is too much of a man for that; despite his disgust, he has not given up on life. There is still that which makes his existence worthwhile, and he would communicate it to the world, even if that world should hardly deserve the news...
Tropic of Cancer remains an extremely difficult book to fathom. The personality in back of it has unsounded depths. To even glance at them may get the reader lost in disgust or chaos. But Miller has written an apology as eloquent...