Word: disaffectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It was an eerie replay of the events that led up to the 1980 Mariel boatlift, when 125,000 disaffected Cubans flooded the U.S. Then, Castro had responded to Jimmy Carter's blanket offer of asylum by opening the port of Mariel for any boat that wanted to leave. And...
Ginsberg credits the Beat writer Herbert Huncke with transmitting the notion in the late 1940s through autobiographical reminiscences, later anthologized as The Evening Sun Turned Crimson. In one story the teenage Huncke watched the police bust a hermaphrodite junkie in a seedy hotel. "The tolerance of the kid was juxtaposed...
IN THE CLIENT, an 11-year-old boy named Mark Sway (Brad Renfro) must get out of dire straits on his own because his father is long gone and his mother is slatternly and foolish. In Angels in the Outfield, an 11-year-old boy named Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt...
My son and I were among the Americans who left Rwanda on April 10. My husband, a Rwandan Hutu, stayed behind. All the stories we have seen in the Western press are pro-Tutsi and one-sided. More than 99% of Hutu are also against the ethnic killing of the...
Jim Collins, TIME's newly appointed arts and media editor, is a journalist acutely adept at eyeing and analyzing trends. But in the late '80s he himself became part of a significant one. Like other disaffected Wall Streeters of the ) era, Collins, who holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University, left...