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Word: disillusioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming of Age | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sunshine Girl | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Tri-Opticon | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Mouseproof | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

The CRIMSON which, with a certain "commercial establishment," now sponsors Pogo, has been noted as a liberal paper. Is it then possible that the liberals, finding themselves without a candidate whom they can wholeheartedly support, have in disillusion turned to Pogoism as a form of institutionalized escape? The comic strip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POGOISM | 5/16/1952 | See Source »

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