Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One of the most publicized and embarrassing blots on Britain's colonial record was the government's highhanded treatment of Seretse Khama, 39, who is hereditary chief of the Bamangwato tribe in the arid, sparsely settled British protectorate of Bechuanaland. Twelve years ago, when Seretse was a law...
THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT (311 pp.)-John Steinbeck-Viking ($4.50).
In The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck tries to recover his angry young manner with a blast at the affluent society. Unfortunately, the book contains more pose than passion, and the moral anathema sounds curiously like late-middle-aged petulance.
The answer offered most of the time was that conservatives at Harvard were becoming more voluble and more organized not more numerous. Groups like the Young Americans for Freedom made themselves heard more often--either as a reaction against the increasingly active liberals or as youthful discontent with parental politics...
To make his congressional appearance, Rusk had delayed joining President Kennedy in Paris (and delayed his overseas journey still further after hearing of Dominican Dictator Trujillo's assassination). Aware of discontent because of past waste and ineffectiveness, Rusk first laid a philosophical basis for foreign aid.