Word: disaffectedness
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The U.S. changed drastically under the impact of this war. In the eyes of the disaffected, the American way of life itself became suspect. If it could lead to Viet Nam, then how could it be trusted in other respects? To the critics, all American institutions eventually seemed to be...
To many blacks, for example, the 50 stars have come to signify so many stations of racism. To the poor, to disaffected minorities, to antiwar demonstrators, the pledge is the reverse of truth (one nation divisible, with liberty and justice for some). To them, the flag sometimes seems a distress...
As Brigadier General Alfredo Montoya, boss of Manila's tough metropolitan police, put the regime's case last week, Marcos' measures only reflected "a need to discipline our people." Ostensibly, the crackdown is aimed at a Maoist-inspired (and Peking-supported) guerrilla movement known as the New...
Discounting reports that many of his former supporters were jumping on the Nixon bandwagon, Humphrey said that the anti-McGovern feeling among disaffected Democrats will soon subside.
This week, in Wisconsin, Ohio and Illinois, he planned to continue wooing the old Democratic chieftains, a process that had begun at the unprecedented committee meeting in the Capitol. Wisely controlled to minimize any new internal squabbles over procedures or credentials, the gathering was nevertheless a kind of public confessional...