Word: disaffectedness
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Since his death by overdose in 1966, the myth of Lenny Bruce as an outlaw saint who gave his life to the cause of free speech has become an article of faith among the culturally disaffected of many moral, political and even sexual persuasions. According to their hagiography, Bruce was...
All the stories concern the Richardson family, from the birth of Sam and Laura's youngest son, Question, in Virginia to a family reunion almost twenty years later in Venice. Sam joined the State Department to escape from his parents' life as Long Island country squires--hunting, fishing and putting...
Most of the crucial information was assembled by the FBI, the Justice Department, the Government Accounting Office and later, the Senate Watergate committee and the House Judiciary Committee. The reporters probed vigorously in these and other agencies. They analyzed, double-checked and followed up isolated leaks, leads and tips?which...
Much later we see Taylor middleaged, a figure of high reputation among his colleagues, now disaffected with bomb making and no longer at work as a nuclear physicist. He directs an ecological-research firm. He and McPhee travel about the country. He shows the author unguarded trucks rumbling down rural...
"Weeeoooo!" For competitors of the giant A. & P. food chain, that cry has become as unwelcome as a Comanche war whoop in the Old West. A contraction of the slogan "Where Economy Originates," it has become a symbol of A. & P.'s relentless drive since 1972 to lure back...