Word: disabusedness
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Many of us in the last decade have been disabused of the conviction that equates age with wisdom and experience with knowledge. As we look to the future of our great educational and scholarly institutions, we seek more than a reaffirmation of fundamental moral and societal values; we search for...
1. In the Bay of Pigs, the Intelligence Directorate was excluded from the operation. If it had not been, the planners and President Kennedy might have been disabused of the fatal illusion that the exile landing would provoke a popular Cuban uprising.
On his trip, Wall also disabused himself of his earlier belief that acupuncture's effects are derived from hypnosis. He decided instead that the Chinese have now developed a powerful combination of three classical techniques: relief of anxiety, suggestion and distraction. When necessary, they reinforce these with modern drugs...
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE repertory. I saw these dudes in New York City this summer: I'd seen Jerome Robbins's Goldberg Variations the year before and figured I might enjoy getting into ballet. This American Ballet outfit speedily disabused me. "Diana and Actaeon" is a particularly good number to miss...
But other generations have been disillusioned. Ours, rather, is disabused of belief in the ultimate importance of the forces behind the corporate state, freed in the very act of seeing the individual's potential for guiding his own thoughts and tastes. The promise of life is not false. Nor is...