Word: disillusional
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Yesenin-Volpin's pessimism and rebelliousness come naturally. His father, the great Russian village poet, Sergei Yesenin, was an ardent early Bolshevik, whose increasing disillusion with Communism was accompanied by a marriage to Dancer Isadora Duncan and a slide into alcoholic and narcotic torpor. His bastard son, Aleksandr Sergeyevich...
With Matthews, however, journalistic participation preceded commitment. As the New York Times correspondent whose interview with Fidel in February, 1957, established the fact that the guerilla leader was still alive, and as the editorial writer who martialed the forces in opposition to Batista, Matthews indeed turned out to be the...
Slogans & Doublethink. Spain's bloody ground became a moral gymnasium for all the liberals of the West; theirs is by now a depressing record of human illusion and disillusion. On the level of national policy, the story is equally dismal -the impotence of the League of Nations, the nonintervention...
Recent study has also shown that the boredom and apathy to which Soph Standing was partially a response may be a way for well-prepared students to maintain a sense of superiority and avoid problems of competition, rather than a simple reaction to studying material they have already covered. This...
Young J. L. inherits a well-oiled machine. Hudson's refund policy costs the company about $25 million a year, but pays off in customer loyalty. So high is Hudson's reputation that Detroiters frequently package wedding gifts bought elsewhere in Hudson's boxes. (Rather than disillusion...