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Great artistry and great anger together made Francisco Goya's etchings of the Napoleonic War immortal. The bestialities of the last War were likewise excoriated by German Artist George Grosz. But not often in history has a regime officially at peace stirred an etcher to the anger and disgust shown in a portfolio to be exhibited early this month at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Entitled Ecraser l'Infàme ("Crush the Infamous"), these etchings are by a 33-year-old Austrian, Baron Rudolf Charles von Ripper, an "Aryan" and devout Roman Catholic, who, in the winter...
...With disgust and even shame on the part of most of the Western world, it must be admitted that there is only one Man of the Year: Adolf Hitler...
...succeed retired Surgeon General Perceval Rossiter of the U. S. Navy, the President upped his White House Physician, Captain Ross Mclntire, to rear admiral and surgeon general. Many another President has eased White House naval, military and medical aides upstairs to high berths, often to the disgust of their ranking officers. Woodrow Wilson thus made Lieutenant Commander Gary Travers Grayson a rear admiral; Warren Harding created bumbling old Charles Sawyer a brigadier general, U. S. Army medical reserve. In upping his friend and doctor last week, Franklin Roosevelt promoted an able, modest eye-ear-nose-&-throat man. Far from loafing...
...after spending six months in Hollywood doing nothing, Pascal left in disgust. He arrived in London and out of a clear sky called Playwright Shaw, whom he had never met. Pascal said he wanted to produce Shaw's plays...
...drinks and exploding into hysterical laughter at the misfortunes of his friends. Miller's prose, with its queer combination of unrestrained rhetoric and dry Yankee humor, the appalling clarity with which he records grotesque doings in dirty bedrooms, the fervor with which he communicates moods of despair and disgust, lift this mess above ordinary pornography...