Word: cynics
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...cynic comes to expect periodic abuses of the democratic process from such machine dominated groups as the Young Democratic and Republican Clubs, and notes without undue emotion the cries of corruption which inevitably follow the elections held by these organizations. When such charges are levelled, however, at elections supervised by the Student Council, even the most aloof become alarmed...
...Cynic Cure. In Lincoln, Neb., one of 85 people who had their driver's licenses suspended for repeated traffic violations was Woodrow G. Respects Nothing...
...stories were made into movies. He became literary editor of the student newspaper Po Prostu, an audaciously outspoken weekly, until it was banned; he helped found the magazine Europa, but it was suppressed before its first issue reached the newsstands. Party-line critics railed that Hlasko was a "cynic and demoralizer," but a poll of Polish youth named him their favorite writer. Last year his novel, The Eighth Day of the Week, which dealt with the homelessness of a pair of Warsaw lovers, won Poland's highest literary award, though the Polish-West German movie made from the book...
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...Book recommenders cramp my bowels," said the middle-aged cynic, and turned away. But there had been a time when he was young, when the Soon-to-be Lost Generation trooped to the local tavern and lit candles to a literary icon most of us have now forgotten...