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...often been said that Schwitters' use of junk reflected a Dadaist disgust, a sense of hopelessness and pessimism in the wake of Germany's defeat. In fact, his art was a joyful celebration. "The whole swindle that men call war was finished," Schwitters wrote. "... I felt myself freed and had to shout my jubilation out to the world. Out of parsimony I took whatever I found to do this, because we were now a poor country. One can even shout out through refuse, and this is what I did, nailing and gluing it together . . . Everything had broken down...
...disappointment and disgust-for despair was much too passive to survive the night-the "Teach-In" held its lessons. Bella Abzug brought with her enough good-natured fury to turn even the hisses and bullshits into calls of affirmation. Chomsky exhibited a quiet knowledgeability that one found refreshingly reassuring. Cynthia Fredericks spoke with concern instead of rhetoric. Perhaps these then were the people who could lead us form the hall...
...room, from basketball court to swimming pool. And then Monday morning it starts out as back to work and home. But Harry ends up slapping his wife; Gus, a dentist, can't stand seeing his patients; and Archie was afraid to go home anyway. In a second wave of disgust, they fly to London...
...THOUGH we didn't see the emptiness and boredom beneath their smiles before, Cassavetes begins to make everything explicit. Celebration of the sensual turns into contempt. When we should feel pity, we feel disgust. At one point in an English gaming room, Archie finds himself with a repulsively ugly English society woman who won't let him walk away. The scene is utterly gratuitous, and Cassavetes is using the perversely banal to make cheap jokes. To present the underside of bourgeois respectability, he deliberately cultivates the unattractive...
...despite the political gains, despite the black push into white-collar jobs, despite more black visibility on television, despite those blacks who have moved onto the boards of major corporations, not enough has been achieved. Beneath the surface seethe continued frustration, withdrawal, anger and alienation, even disgust with the very system blacks are trying to use to their advantage ("It takes your soul and it gives you a color TV set in return"). Educated black men and women may indeed never have had a better opportunity to get a piece of the action, but poverty, despair, hopelessness still haunt...