Word: discontentedness
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Since the deaths of Faulkner and Hemingway, John O'Hara is unquestionably the most famous of living American novelists. Yet he is notoriously discontented with this grudgingly conceded eminence; he is given to complaints that he never won the highbrow vote or the Nobel Prize. And critics who find...
In seven weeks of sporadic fighting and tortured negotiations, the U.S., acting largely alone, had managed to impose a shaky truce between the loyalist forces of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras and the collection of rebellious soldiers, discontented civilians and Communist infiltrators led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño De...
A Discontented Estate. In justice, this book must be measured against the life that led up to it. Born to stifling bourgeois respectability, Mile, de Beauvoir fled to the Sorbonne, where only one of her classmates stood higher in the examinations, and she determined to cast her lot with him...
In the shadow of Sartre's celebrity, Mile, de Beauvoir found a derivative celebrity of her own. She was the Mother Hubbard of existentialism, a clock in a refrigerator, a cerebral loan of Arc-to cite some of the appellations, largely invidious, that were flung at her during her...
Urban Impatience. The riots were triggered by a government edict that would have shunted failing students over 17 into technical curriculums. Only 300 of Morocco's 62,000 high school students were affected, but the innocuous announcement was enough to touch off a powder keg of underlying discontent. Unfortunately...