Word: disillusional
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Whatever one may call the whole business there is vast indifference about it all. Indignation has been lost, says Columnist Joseph Kraft, in a disillusion with people in high places. Kraft quotes a man who says, "To most people [Government corruption] just one bunch of thieves robbing another bunch of...
America cannot be completely absolved from responsibility for the assassinations, if only because it has created the conditions in which the killers live and flourish. Something in U.S. society leads them to favor one particular outlet, now morbidly familiar. The assassinations are, in a way, a reflection of the emotionalism...
Baldwin seems particularly aware of his vulnerability in No Name in the Street, a collection of reminiscences raked from his private disasters and public disappointments. The book is walled in by a profound disillusion based partly on the state of the world as Baldwin sees it and partly on the...
In criticizing Nader, though, Mc-Carry complains that Nader criticized the National Traffic Safety Agency after helping establish it-and therefore being bound, McCarry presumes, never to attack it. After his disillusion with Nader's overzealousness, McCarry incongruously follows with a recitation of Nader's underzealousness in supporting...
For generations, Italy's economy was dominated by flamboyant autocrats who pioneered the country's industrialization and ran their businesses like private principalities. There was Alberto Pirelli, who showed off his tires by sponsoring an auto trip from Peking to Paris, and Textile Mogul Giannino Marzotto, who gave...