Word: disillusional
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Obviously a great deal more pushing is required. It would be a disastrous disservice to the Negro cause to conclude that everyone can now relax and that the present rate of advance is necessarily enough. The Southern Negro is still far from enjoying all the rights the law grants him...
Astonishingly enough, neither Oxford nor Cambridge offers a course in U.S. history alone. But Britain has D. W. Brogan, 64, an amiable Americanolopist-at-large who has exhaustively studied the U.S. past and present, has spent years working and traveling through the land, and has written some of the most...
Impaled and Trodden. It took him nearly 30 years, says O'Faolain, to free himself by "slow, tentative, instinctive" steps from the "soft smother of the provincial featherbed." The first step took him to the university, where he learned "the hot and vivid [Irish] pleasures of aimless disputation, of...
Disillusion. Each unit was made up of men from the same area, and once back in South Viet Nam, they headed for their home regions. Some went to fight alongside or instruct the local Viet Cong, but others had more specialized tasks. Nguyen Thao actually built a complete small-arms...
This novel of decay, disillusion and a spurious dolce vita attracted a wide audience of Italian readers, and won the Strega literary prize in 1961. The nominal heroine is a girl with a blonde ponytail, a little boy's face and a woman's body, who exists as...