Word: discontentedness
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The British Labor Party and its mightiest press mouthpiece, London's Daily Mirror, have long drawn strength from a common source: young people. The Labor Party grew to power with help from Britain's discontented, we-can-change-the-world young folk. The Daily Mirror (circ. 4,571...
Autumn after autumn, the dream has persisted, in alleys and wood lots, mansions and tenements: every American could rise by education. Ben Franklin nourished it with self-improvement primers. Jefferson gave it philosophical reasons. An unlettered people scrambled for skill and knowledge. "Your government will never be able to restrain...
Army officers were cheered by word last week that the U.S. will soon airlift supplies-such items as tents. Jeeps, small arms and radio sets-to aid them. But the main difficulty of staunchly anti-Communist Premier Phoui Sananikone lies in the fact that the poor, discontented, primitive half of...
Britain's discontented middle class, says London University Professor Ronald Fletcher, "is actually better off than before the war, but is worse off in relation to those below." Workers own TV sets, cars and motor scooters, often go abroad for their holidays. Free education enables their children to aspire...
Modern working conditions are also an important factor. Union strength builds largely on discontent; today's worker, with his high wages and fringe benefits, finds less and less to be discontented about. He works, says A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Kassalow, "in one of these clean, modern, well-run factories...