Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This tendency to defy established un ion leadership is caused partly by a kind of anticolonialism on the part of locals that want to play a bigger role, partly by the political and technological challenges - such as automation - that have created a climate of discontent in U.S. unions. To many...
"There is a rhythm to a personal and national and international life, and it flows and ebbs...if you ask me whether this was the 'winter of our discontent,' I would say no. If you would ask me whether we were doing quite as well this winter as we were...
Some countries have gone so far as to set up agencies specializing in au pairs. These act as a kind of clearing house, matching girls and families in a far more orderly way than the old family-writing-to-family system. In London, best known are Universal Aunts and Hunt...
Then by what standards, with what vocabulary, may we begin to classify this unclassifiable body of scholars? We must look, clearly, for what is designated in lower level English courses as the Unifying Theme. With some exuberant exceptions, the Unifying Theme for Harvard undergraduates is malaise. It is a vague...
Then there were the less tangible causes of discontent. Russia's prestige has been suffering abroad. The revolutionaries are turning to the Chinese, the mixed-economy nations are on the whole sticking with the West, and the neutralists spurn the Russians as well as the Americans. Caught between the advances...