Word: disaffectedness
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The Nunn difference is as much ideological as it is a manifestation of Southern boosterism. With his right-of-center views on foreign policy and military spending, Nunn would provide a counterweight to the seven current Democratic candidates, who are united in their opposition to contra aid and Ronald Reagan...
The authors think they know who their hungry readers are. Hirsch claims approval both from elders for his calling up of "what education used to be," and from those in their 20s who favor the book because they believe they have been shortchanged. Bloom reports that interest in his book...
ELVIS IS TO college students of the 1980s what Frank Sinatra is to septuagenarians. Almost everybody young and educated--from disaffected punkers to cravated junior businessmen--likes Elvis, and almost anyone connected with Harvard who could scrounge a ticket went to see his solo show at Bright. Elvis may be...
The intelligentsia. Because it is an ideology as well as a power system, apartheid needs the Afrikaner intelligentsia to explain and justify its workings. The intellectual center of Afrikanerdom is the University of Stellenbosch, just outside Cape Town, and Stellenbosch is in turmoil. Not only are the students increasingly disaffected...
If there is a serious problem with Lemonheads, it is that their approach is too straightforward and panders to too many established punk cliches. Their cover of "Amazing Grace" is yet another example of a disaffected group of young people defecating on a classic. Like Sid Vicious' rendition of "My...