Word: discontentedness
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First Victim. Lumumba was also having trouble keeping order inside his own government. He slapped one of the Congo's few educated politicians, Puna Party President Jean Balikango, into jail on charges of making secessionist speeches. But even if by such tactics Lumumba succeeded in making himself a dictator...
"Electronic Living." Much-advertised Washington Square Village burst upon New Yorkers' consciousness about two years ago in a flossy brochure that spread out a tempting smorgasbord of the good urban life: "A new conception of city living . . . privacy and space heretofore undreamed of in New York City . . . electronic living...
As many Western statesmen see it, internal changes have given Khrushchev a stake in international tranquillity. A plunge back into cold war would require a reversal of his "less terror, more consumer goods" policy, and leave the Russian people all the more discontented because they had tasted a little freedom...
Most conspicuous among the discontented were France's farmers, who find themselves in a painful economic squeeze caused by De Gaulle's abolition of the parity index linking farm and industrial prices. A month ago, a majority of France's Deputies demanded a special National Assembly session...
The book begins safely enough. The narrator, who can be described redundantly as a discontented newspaperman, hates his job. In the process the author (movie critic for London's Sunday Express) pokes some sharp fun at British journalism. But the tip-off that Novelist Monsey finds the world more...