Word: disillusional
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The second tacit assumption is this matter of responsibility. The young of today are not haunted by the notion of a Golden Age. We who were born about 1900 remember that span of security. We who lived through the late '20s and early '30s, the liberal movements, were filled with...
The second tacit assumption is this matter of responsibility. The young of today are not haunted by the notion of a Golden Age. We who were born about 1900 remember that span of security. We who lived through the late '20s and early '30s, the liberal movements, were filled with...
Disillusioned Neophyte. For the next six months Hayden was a dutiful Communist neophyte, attending meetings of his cell, paying regular dues ($1.75 to $2 a month). But disillusion soon began to set in. Said Hayden: "They think they have the key to everything by some occult power-and that they...
The 1914 war was a profound shock to Shaw's comic genius and his optimism. Heartbreak House appeared to many as a confusion. The disillusion with the failures of the Labor government, in which the Webbs and many of his Fabian friends served, turned Shaw back to his own...
But his disillusion with all manifestations of Communism, heightened by his trip to the Balkans in 1947, has been repeatedly expressed in French newspapers. In October 1949, he wrote four articles two of them vehemently attacking what he called the Communist suppression of the individual. The third article attacked the...