Word: disillusional
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Most of the disillusion springs from the teachers themselves--for elementary languages are particularly difficult for research scholars to teach, particularly when many of their students have developed in high school a remarkable immunity toward learning language. At Harvard, research men are continually meeting the new and challenging ideas of...
But when the delegates streamed into New Delhi last week, a Red-tinted film of disillusion settled about Mrs. Nehru's meeting. Most of the bona fide artists, scientists and priests could not speak English, the official conference language, but the delegations from Moscow, Peking and the other Communist...
With a clumsiness to bring guffaws from a third-rate union negotiator, the usually adroit Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov pared down his old Dumbarton Oaks request for U.N. membership for all 16 Soviet republics. "[Russia] would be satisfied," said he, "with the admission of three, or at least two." Good...
Politics meant provoking German atrocities in order to disillusion the captive Ukrainian people with their German liberators and. as the Red army went forward, catching up with and liquidating Ukrainian nationalists and non-Soviet partisans. He came out of the war wearing the mark of that stony brutality which characterizes...
The good doctor realizes his mistake a couple of days later, but by that time the fathead is in the fire. Janet Leigh, a New York reporter, has convinced her editor that it would make a great sob story if the paper granted Jerry his last wish: "to see New...