Word: discontentedness
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A more intangible quantity has thus to be reckoned in a period's sense of its own wellbeing. People speak about a declining "quality of life." Those who are discontented with the present are apt to have selective memories of a better past and forget, what went with it...
AT SOME SHOWINGS of Nashville bands of people squirm in their seats, flamboyantly discontented--sharp out-takes of impatient breath, exclamations of disgust, even boos at the end of the show. It had to come to this: it should have been obvious from the beginning that the colossal build up...
The earth is almost fully explored and culturally homogenized. There are few places to which the discontented cutting edge of mankind can emigrate. There is no equivalent of the America of the 19th and early 20th centuries. But space cities provide a kind of America in the skies, an opportunity...
Making Enemies. Pollster Mervin Field recently found that 86% of Californians expect that Brown will do either a good or at least a fair job in office. Brown is attempting to forge a new constituency that will cut across traditional liberal-conservative lines and gather support from both ends of...
Conservatives expressing their dissatisfaction with the Ford Administration and discussing a new party [March 17] may be in for a surprise. They may get a new party, but one far different from what they anticipated or want. Others, much more numerous than they, also are discontented with President Ford'...