Word: disillusioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the frontiers of Europe a word heard ever more loudly is "redefection"-meaning the return of a refugee to his home in the Communist empire. Last week an Emergency Commission of the International Rescue Committee, having completed a two-month study in Western Europe, reported that 1,158 refugees...
The margin of victory was a measure of Australia's disillusion with Labor's Dr. Evatt, whose reputation has suffered ever since some of his aides were mentioned in the Petrov spy case. It was the third general election lost by Evatt, and it put his continued leadership...
The picture offers one spiffy spoof of the '205, a Prohibition party with hoofing on the pool table, dunking in the fish pond and a charge at the punch bowl with drawn sabers. And there are some swell lines for those who relish the era's nasal note...
When they chose Communism, Cowart danced a jig of joy, but after seven months of stern indoctrination his joy turned to disillusion. Instead of getting the university courses the Communists promised, the three were sent to labor on collective farms in drought-scarred Honan Province. As Cowart tells it, they...
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...