Word: disaffectedness
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As the boycott began to affect downtown shops, bars, restaurants, theaters and even (for Catalonians, a big sacrifice) soccer games, Barcelona became like a dead city. There were whispers of a general strike. Clandestine pamphlets appeared, citing "the incapacity of some authorities" and demanding their dismissal. The boycott bore the...
The surprise action split Cao Daism wide open. Rival factions began feuding with each other in nightly sprees of shooting, kidnaping and plundering. The imprisoned pope often interrupted his daily mandolin strumming and xylophone banging to pray for the dead. Meanwhile, rivalry between the pope and his disaffected general to...
The breach between the church and the arts can be healed. "The modern crisis has pushed the agnostic and the disaffected to new dimensions and new depths in such a way that they find relevance again in certain features of the Christian understanding of life. On the other hand . . . the...
Pacification & Punishment. French official policy is to exorcise the hate and, at the same time, crush the revolt by "neither repression nor abandonment, but pacification." In practice, this means that French Governor General Jacques Soustelle, a Gaullist and professional anthropologist, is trying to do two things at once: fight a...
It is difficult to see how Israel can find a lasting solution to her problems in the near future. A negotiated peace seems to be unthinkable for the Arabs. Some elements in Israel have urged a preventive war. But even if Israeli soldiers marched to Damascus or Cairo, they could...