Word: disillusional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In a rash of newspaper ads and lecture tours, white South Africans are putting forth their country's inducements: job opportunities, a sunny climate, a bountiful subsidy to help pay travel and settling-in costs for the white newcomers. But the government faces an impossible task in its goal...
And like Leacock, like any writer who can really appeal to children, Juster is out to explore, not disillusion. The boundary line he establishes between reality and fantasy is just an imaginary tollbooth, and unlike real tollbooths, this one reimburses itself into obsolescence; after one voyage, Milo's real world...
Into the coffee port of Santos last week steamed the Dutch freighter Ruys. Aboard was ex-President Jānio Quadros, 45, whose petulant resignation seven months ago plunged Brazil into chaos, disillusion and disrepair. He came home in triumph. When the Ruys docked, Jānio, tanned, a bit flushed, and...
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 socalled "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--The Bad Guys--than one of You. If your...
Limited Uses. These are small pegs for optimism, but they do suggest that the "new nations" are very far from lost either to the West or to reason. They have amply proved that they have no special claim to moral superiority simply because they are small or neutral. They are...