Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGE L. KOVAC Lincolnwood, Ill...
...What an abysmally dirty trick you played on Hubert Humphrey by putting that ugly and utterly nontypical picture of him on your cover! The text portrays his real, essential characteristics of buoyancy, optimism, kindness, idealism, sunny nature; while in the cover picture he appears cynical, suspicious, pessimistic, ill-natured, hard-bitten-the very opposite of his actual character...
...crowds gathered at railway crossings, in village marketplaces and in a churchyard after morning services. Nigeria's Egyptian pilots have so often bombed and strafed Biafran hospitals-whose roofs are often clearly marked with large red crosses-that Ibo mothers in some areas risk death for their seriously ill children rather than take them to such prime target areas...
...National Gallery's assistant director, J. Carter Brown, considers Irwin one of the most talented artists to come along since Mark Rothko. The Metropolitan Museum's contemporary-art curator, Henry Geldzahler, bought an Irwin in 1962, despite the fact that looking at it made him "feel ill and weak all over." It now hangs in his bedroom, where he maintains that it exerts "a calming effect...
...archconservative who dislikes mass man and the whole modern era with its shoddy workmanship-one can almost see him in an English county seat decrying the servant problem and denouncing Labour amid outraged pipe smoke. He accurately describes himself as neo-Victorian in regard to sex; he speaks ill of homosexuality and masturbation, and proclaims that "without guilt, sex was meaningless." In fact, one sometimes wonders whether Mailer is not really an undercover agent of the old order, trying to undermine the Left from within...