Word: disaffectedness
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Most of his fast-paced little novel is set not in (or near) the centers of world power but in the underdeveloped and overpopulated Caribbean country of Santo Domingo. There Clay Loomis, a disaffected CIA agent turned soldier of fortune, serves as chief of security to the current dictator. His...
Behaviorist Dorothy Tennov of Connecticut's University of Bridgeport says narcissism is becoming a common diagnosis because "therapists seldom see virgins-people who haven't been to a therapist before. The people who go are a relatively small group who become therapy junkies." Others insist that today'...
The consequence, observes Grant, was that thousands of disaffected peasants and slaves went underground. "These guerrilla groups," he reasons, were "the equivalents of today's dropout terrorists, likewise thrown up and thrown out by social systems they find unacceptable." Corruption infected a swollen bureaucracy and licentiousness became the ordure...
Examine how Moynihan argued his apocalyptic hypothesis. For one, he carefully ignored the substance of the counter-culture's ideal, in part by focussing snidely on the left's most visible and fickle wing, the "children of the rich." The academic-turned-politician also evasively classified the critique of the...
> William Green, the drummer in Washington's guard, was accused by Forbes of organizing the recruitment of disaffected American soldiers. Specifically, Green admitted recruiting Hickey for a payment of 2 shillings (Forbes also gave the soldier half a dollar).