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...read the Education section, which had to do with speeches to various graduating classes by the heads of Harvard, M.I.T. and Princeton, and my feelings on finishing were those of dismay, disillusionment, disappointment and disgust, with a touch of nausea...
...disgust with sex not only inspires one of the finest sonnets ("The expense of spirit in a waste of shame is lust in action"), but it erupts with sour rancor in all the major tragedies but Macbeth. With almost prurient relish, Hamlet chides his mother not to let the "bloat king" with his "reechy kisses" tempt her again to bed. The eightyish Lear, who might be presumed past sex obsession, works himself up into a fury on the devil in woman's flesh...
...orator as round as he is tall (weight: 225 Ibs.), Asanuma is admiringly called "the man locomotive." Thick-headed as well as hamhanded, Asanuma graduated from W'aseda University and promptly became a labor agitator. When a minority group of moderates bolted the party last November because of disgust with the Socialist leadership's parroting of the Communist line, Asanuma was elected chairman of the remainder. Before the split, the Socialists polled a total of 13 million votes, v. 23 million for Kishi's Democratic Liberals...
...when Mantle's game goes sour, he turns sullen in self-disgust. Says Cleveland General Manager Frank Lane: "Trouble with Mantle is, he's fighting himself. He'll go zero for three and then look miserable on a fly ball because he's brooding." When Mantle is down, the boos begin to rumble throughout Yankee Stadium even before he steps into the batter's box. Mantle hears every catcall, fools no one when he shrugs: "These people don't know what the hell they're booing...
What psychological sense the film retains from the Theodore White novel of the same name is waterlogged, if not drowned, by too much hokum and handwringing. The best moments are those in which the enlisted men, having no heroics to perform, slouch about coated with dust and disgust...