Word: disillusionment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morning.) Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1915, he began to write at 18, served during the war aboard an LST in the Pacific. His work is widely praised by such Southerners as Robert Penn Warren, Erskine Caldwell and Eudora Welty, seems typical of a growing school of graceless disillusionment in fiction, too accomplished not to be taken seriously, and too narrow not to be viewed with alarm by readers who respect its talents and potential contribution...
No politicians-not even Communists-can get away with this kind of wild double-dealing forever. In Belmont, and in thousands of Belmonts all over France, disillusion has set in. All the grip which La Terre has acquired on the peasants, all the attractiveness of hardbitten, fast-talking Communist farmer...
This is a book about Hollywood, which for an ordinary human being, or even for a pig, is a strange and terrifying place. The tone of disillusion and disgust very likely comes from Bemelmans' discovery that, aside from the glittering surface, Hollywood is nothing like prewar Paris, where he delighted...
The Harvard chapter of AVC is in a distinctly anomolous position today. For although over 800 veterans are on their rolls and at least nominally behind what broadsides describe as a "liberal, dynamic program," AVC has for some time not been able to move as tellingly as it might. A...
He was a teetotaler and a pacifist. During World War I he chartered the Oscar II and sailed for Europe, determined to confront the leaders of Europe and argue them out of their senseless conflicts. He came home sickened by ridicule and disillusion.