Word: disaffectedness
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All the same, everyone knows someone who toys with the idea of staying home. In California, for example, voter registration has dropped by more than 1,000,000 since 1964, while the population has risen by 1,500,000. Across the country, the abstainers are mainly disaffected McCarthy and Kennedy...
"Faster, Higher, Stronger" is the motto of the Olympic Games. "Angrier, nastier, uglier" better describes the scene in Mexico City last week. There, in the same stadium from which 6,200 pigeons swooped skyward to signify the opening of the "Peace Olympics," Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two disaffected...
Gorey: Humphrey has a leadership problem too. He knows that if he wins, he will be a minority President. And that might make it difficult for him to lead the country, to get the alienated into right as the well as the disaffected left back into the mainstream. The men...
Some of Kosinski's treatment of Communism is pure Gogol. Says one freedom-starved university student: "I've discovered more than thirty public buildings in different parts of the city, all with temples like this, all waiting for me." He is referring not to clandestine churches but to...
In Detroit later in the week, Muskie followed up by urging tolerance of the disaffected pro-McCarthy young before a United Auto Workers conference.