Word: disaffectedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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His miscalculation, like that of so many other Western correspondents, was to focus on the dissidents who protested in public and largely to ignore the disaffected millions of Soviet citizens who went through the motions of their jobs while seething with resentment. That "hidden constituency" for reform even included young...
DeJong, who attended Tufts University and TuftsSchool of Veterinary Medicine, says he also hopesto pick up support from a pro-choice liberalcontingent disaffected by Bulger's conservativestance on social issues.
On the other side of the political spectrum, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke made a strong showing in his Louisiana Senate race by tapping the same disaffected voters to whom Long appealed. But Duke, unlike Long, insisted on grafting racism onto legitimate economic grievances.
The knock against Kurt Vonnegut, back a couple of decades ago when he was a cult author, was that he pandered too glibly to the natural cynicism of the disaffected young. He was too quick, it was said, to detect the smell of society's insulation burning -- and to sigh...
Other Communist regimes began to totter when disaffected citizens filled foreign embassies demanding freedom to leave. Fidel Castro is determined to avoid that fate. Rather than permit 15 Cubans seeking asylum in the Spanish embassy in Havana to depart, he angrily renounced a $2.5 million economic cooperation program with Spain...