Word: disillusionment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In countries such as America and Australia aspirations have always been high. But in recent times in Australia there has been a tendency for current expectations to rise beyond the limits of current resources. Once expectations and demands become excessive serious economic problems, conflict, disillusion become inevitable.
But Moynihan, though possibly the most hated man in the underdeveloped world, may well be the most admired man here. Next month, The New York Times reported, he will probably announce his candidacy for the Senate from New York. A small campaign has already started, portraying Moynihan as the intellectual...
A major sociological study issued last week, however, claims that such liberalizing measures are in fact highly popular. Instead, the study puts the blame for the U.S. church's decline squarely on Pope Paul's 1968 encyclical against "artificial" birth control. Disillusion over the encyclical, in fact, may...
For reasons having to do with foreign competition, the limits of growth, and the practical impossibility of raising the productivity of the growing white-collar sector of the economy, the days of massive economic growth are over, according to Bell. Bell and his colleagues fear that at this historical stage...
So last week he ticked off his reasons for pride in his years at the Pentagon−keeping the defense strong, making nuclear strategy more flexible, holding the military together after Viet Nam. Then, as usual, there was more. Skepticism has gone too far, he believes. It has forced concentration...