Word: disillusional
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John Knowles is a precisionist and a sharp contrast to the ebullient undiscipline of Condon and Heller. His first novel, A Separate Peace, is brief and limited in the breadth if not the depth of the experience it describes. Its author is always in perfect control of style and structure...
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 on Monday; I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--The Bad Guys--than one of You. If...
Rostow, now one of the New Frontier's fulltime advisers, remarked to Presidential Aspirant John Kennedy: "I know what the first words of your acceptance speech should be: 'This country is ready to get moving again and I'm ready to lead it.' " Kennedy liked the...
Meanwhile, things haven't been moving in Washington, either. A Democratic President and an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress can't get much of anything passed except defense and appropriation bills, which certainly doesn't add up to dynamism. A sense of disillusion has set in among friends as...
Exports: Peanuts, cotton, rice. Per capita income: $33. U.S. aid (1961): $2,500,000. Also aided by Reds. No industry; 1960 break with Senegal cut off Mali from its port. Signs of disillusion with Red barter deals. Syphilis rate 15%, as in most of ex-French Africa.