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...catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) is a repulsive-looking creature, a spiny, bewhiskered bottom scavenger that will eat nearly anything and thrives in some of the most polluted U.S. rivers. Northern fishermen usually throw catfish away in disgust, but tens of thousands of Americans, mostly in the South, consider its sweet white flesh a delicacy. This is especially so when it comes from catfish raised in the comparatively clean waters of a commercial pond...
...left to see his hands--and, unbelievable as it seems, simply sat there without motion or sound. Well, the audience regressed from expectation to uneasiness; then, in crescendo of frustration, through irritation--it was hot, the air fairly visible--rumor (Is he stricken? Sane? Obstinat?) anger, shouting, disgust, and finally mass departure. What is music coming to...?" Only to renewal. The pianist, by refusing to "play," gave rhetorical expression to one of the dramatic esthetics of musical avant-garde composer John Cage. Our matronly subscriber almost certainly goes to ten concerts, sits on the left, prefers the Steinway, adores podium...
...Disgust and Euphoria. The flip-flop disgusted some leading professors, who accused Cornell of "selling out to terrorists." At least a dozen pledged to suspend teaching until the campus was free of guns, a demand that Perkins seemed unable to satisfy. Three scholars resigned, including Allan P. Sindler, chairman of the government department and a onetime civil-rights leader at Duke, who charged his colleagues with a lack of "integrity, guts, common sense and dignity." In contrast, English Professor M. H. Abrams supported the reverse vote as the only rational course. "To stand on legality, to temporize, would be disastrous...
...smallest, zero. His average monthly income is $850, and business is getting better all the time. He will admit to only five failures among the marriages he has arranged: two because the husbands went off to prison and three because the young men (to his great disgust) turned out to be inscrutable. Why did the failures occur? "I couldn't test their engines in advance," he says. Now his male applicants must supply medical certificates attesting to their likely potency. From that point on, Ishizaka relies on intuition...
Before World War II, Céline spat out the story of his life and times in savage prose poems of hatred and disgust, which instantly made him famous for his genius and notorious for his antiSemitism. He was a vagrant, a prisoner, a hero during the first World War and a traitor during the Second. In 1944 he was jailed for collaborating with the Nazis, and for the next few years was in exile when not in prison. Now, seven years after his death in 1961, Castle to Castle, the final book by this demented genius, appears in English...