Word: discontentedness
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The two executives were given a mandate for change by the church's board, which has grown discontented with mounting losses and, even more, the drop in U.S. circulation from 240,000 in the late 1960s to 150,000 last year (the Monitor also distributes a weekly edition to...
Starting from scratch, but with confidence in his own spellbindery, Adolf Hitler slowly worked up the fantastic party he calls National Socialist, Nazi Fascist. Its program consists of stentorian appeals to every form of German prejudice. Essentially Nationalists and patrioteers, the Nazis insert "Socialist" into their party's name...
On youth: A section of the youth is discontented with certain social realities. There is nothing strange or terrible about that, but we must guide them well, otherwise we will do them harm.
For many Japanese, however, pure ritual is not enough, nor is the attraction of the established religions. To fill this spiritual gap, the discontented have turned to so-called new religious movements, many of which were founded before World War II but grew spectacularly afterward. The groups, 170 or more...
As reconceived by Director Robert Allan Ackerman, however, the play is a dark comedy that chronicles the ceaseless small betrayals committed against one another by the discontented. The working-class victims suffer most from their own lack of drive, discipline and vision. The functionaries are somewhat pitiable; the scion of...