Word: disillusional
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Omar Anwari is Cabinet minister to the last Afghan King, who was deposed in 1973. The three Anwari children are refractions of Omar's bitterness and fanatical loyalty. Mangal, a journalist, becomes a revolutionary. Saira, at once the most sophisticated and confused, shuttles uneasily between her own nation and the...
As the 20th century rumbles to an end, American designers' enduring fascination with Tomorrow has revived. But Tom Swift is dead. This time around, the fashionably conceived future involves a certain cultivated disillusion, a kind of callow, teasing Weimar dread. The thrill is gone.
Accordingly, it was in an atmosphere of considerable tension that some 4,500 delegates, parliamentarians, party functionaries, journalists and foreign observers gathered in the southwestern city of Toulouse last week for the Socialists' biennial congress. The delegates' agenda: to draw up the main lines of a new party policy and...
Another factor is the disillusion over the current code. IRS officials say more and more people are bucking the system in a variety of ways, from petty cheating on tax forms to holding off IRS agents with shotguns. Whether we like to admit it or not, the U.S. is great...
I have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial. "Beating the System" you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your...