Word: dejectedness
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I walked back to Aspen, very dejected. Sadat was there, dressed to go back to Washington. I asked everyone else to leave and told Sadat what was happening. We realized that all of us had done our best, but that prospects were dim indeed.
There is only one direction in which the prisoner can evolve-that of increasing artfulness. In the hothouse atmosphere of his social environment he cannot escape this fateful transformation of his character. He feels his claws growing, a furtive and dejected, an impudent and servile look creeps into his eyes...
As the pair whiz around in surrealistic motor cars and light beams, the storyline and even the character distinctions blur. What emerges are two not-so-subtle themes. First, the computer system is an allegory for repressive government. MCP is the dictator: Hitler, Franco, Amin, Big Brother all rolled into...
Actually, mad Third World upstarts had merely gone on the offensive. Incredibly, the Algerians-colossal early-line long shots at 2,000 to 1-attacked ferociously. Forward Rabah Madjer scored, and an awakened German team retaliated with a goal by the superstar Rummenigge. But half a minute later, moving with...
Equally sobering was the assessment of city and state inspectors that the fire was probably caused by arson. The circumstantial evidence was persuasive. There had been three previous fires of suspicious origin within two weeks, all of them next door to the building where officials believe the blaze began. But...