Word: disaffectedness
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--MAKE HOUSE CALLS. Jocelyn Graves, a single mom who lives in downtown Sacramento, Calif., felt that her son's school was run by suburban educators who didn't understand or care about her son. She began grumbling to friends and found that many were equally disaffected. At an informal school...
Coordinated law enforcement also sapped strength from the movement. Some 20 states tightened laws against so-called common-law courts, through which disaffected citizens' groups had attempted to bypass federal authority over property and tax issues. At the same time the FBI was authorized to hire 500 new agents to...
In the neighborhood around CB's, the old Lower East Side of New York, rents were cheap. Lofts could go for one or two hundred bucks, apartments for less. The cheap rents and the dope (which was everywhere, three dollars a bag, with 50 or 60 people lined up on...
Of course, nothing could be the same after Columbine, and now Santee. As long as sad little boys can find guns, schools must be vigilant. But at what price? Today it seems as though an arms race has begun in American high schools: as a tiny number of disaffected kids...
disaffected collections of morose observations you'd expect. Sample: "Sleeping