Word: disillusional
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Soundest Proof. Between Edna and Georgia, Skelton filled in with alcohol, but now drinks very little and does not smoke, although he almost always has a cigar with him and manages to chew up some 25 to 30 stogies a day. Nor does he gamble-in public-since that might...
An idealistic young politician named Aguirre (Lautaro Murua) becomes the agent of sin. He delivers an emotional speech on freedom of the press, then learns from a sneering member of the opposition that his own father protected his fortune by silencing newspapers that opposed him. Sickened by the revelation, he...
Last week it was the rebels' turn to express despair and disillusion. They disclosed that they had sent a secret message to De Gaulle last month offering to send emissaries to Paris for discussions with no strings attached, and had been snubbed. Said Rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas angrily: "The...
For such a frail flower, with so few champions, neoromanticism has survived remarkably well. Has it a future? Probably, so long as youth and disillusion last.
Novelist Monsey writes very well, but not very convincingly. His sentences, paragraphs and pages are apt and forceful, and for the most part sustain the moods he intends. But taken a chapter or so at a time, the writing wars with itself. The reader may wonder whether the author really...