Word: discontentedness
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Crowding Troubles. Early last week, Eden drove back to London from a weekend at Chequers. Everything seemed to crowd in upon him. There was Commonwealth opposition: his first visitor was Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike on his way to New York to inform the U.N. Assembly of the...
Newsmen assigned to cover Adlai Stevenson's quest for the Presidency were noticeably discontented last week. Half-way between the August conventions and the November election, they had reached the state where "everybody has a gripe about something and their little piques are all coming out at once," as one...
Overnight, Maria's clothes crisis became another front-page sensation. The fellow-traveling Avanti jumped at the chance to twit church papers: "[They] are evidently discontented with God, for they seek to change His creations." The nationwide hoopla was too much for Maria, and she refused to appear in...
In bidding for political support, Rojas can no longer claim the popular role of hero-peacemaker. The rural war has flared up again, with discontented backlanders increasingly joining guerrilla bands. In Tolima department last month, troops reportedly rounded up several hundred villagers in an area where several soldiers had been...
Actually, says Philosopher Sidney Hook, from his point of view, "there is no distinction between being an intellectual and being intelligent." And-it may be fortunate that the intellectuals of America do not form a distinct group. "In the past, resentment against intellectuals was sometimes harbored by ordinary people-directed...