Word: disillusional
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For Jardine, Matheson & Co. and other big British traders in Red China, the road to disillusion has been a way of travail. After the Reds won the China mainland, such firms as Jardine's, Butterfield & Swire, and Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. had the rosily misguided notion that they...
At 24, she has seen a man killed in a riot, is disenchanted with the dangers of putting her ideal of freedom into practice, has fallen out of love and is escaping to Europe. "Where do people like us belong?" she cries. "Not with the whites screaming to hang onto...
Rural Reactionary. French nightclub singers, much easier to remember than French premiers, are possibly better guides to their country's history. There was Lucienne Boyer, who had her heyday in the uncertain years between the wars, a trim but still sizable singer who put across Parlez-Moi d'...
Three dimensional films are an optical disillusion. In their present form, the Tri-Opticon Pictures premiered in New England last week are more suited to a science classroom that a Boston theatre. Two of the five shorts are cartoons-abstractions of lines and triangles which seem to drift from the...
The U.N., Sir Carl conceded, "is the best we can do in the circumstances, and if we did not have it we would have to invent something very like it." Nonetheless, he added in disillusion, "we established at San Francisco an organization which could no doubt protect the world against...