Word: disaffectedness
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The survey pinpoints one group of voters still posing a considerable problem for Carter: the former followers of Senator Edward Kennedy. Despite the efforts at the Democratic National Convention to patch up the party's deep rift and Kennedy's later pledges of support for Carter, the Senator...
Some escapes have been ingenious. Last year two families fashioned a homemade hot air balloon out of bedsheets and curtain strips and sailed silently over the fence to freedom by night in the southern border sector. But most who manage to get across today are either disaffected members of the...
A passel of columnists-among them such articulate fellows as William F. Buckley and George F. Will-espouse the same economic and social causes as Reagan does, but when they get to discussing Reagan's knowledge or reasoning powers, they sound somewhere between patronizing and apologetic. Carter, however, lacks...
Still, at the 1972 convention in Miami Beach, there was a futile movement, supported by a delegate from Georgia, Governor Jimmy Carter, to break California's winner-take-all primary rule so that disaffected delegates would be free to vote for George McGovern's rivals. Explains a Carter...
That such a movement exists is almost beyond belief. Is this the avenue disaffected alumni, faculty and students have chosen to trod as a way of expressing their disenchantment with the college in general? Are those who saw the banning of the Indian symbol as an attack on tradition in...