Word: disillusionment
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A former heroin addict gazes out the window of a New York City drug rehabilitation center. "Over there, the weather has been good. That is greatly appreciated on these streets." Sunny skies have made for bumper poppy crops in Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan over the last three years. The increasing...
The moral emptiness in the eddies of Viet Nam recalls the funk and disillusion that followed World War I. Someone has suggested that the U.S. after Saigon fell was something like Germany after 1918. The analogy, farfetched and literally false, contains a touch of truth. World War I was hard...
More profoundly, some observers of the American scene see an existential vacuum, a widespread sense that life has lost much of its meaning. Argues Philosopher Sidney Hook: "We have abandoned our old-fashioned values. We have given up our old gods. People want things to come easily, they no longer...
He did not pronounce the contest between classic and romantic a draw, nor did he congratulate himself on a proud neutrality. He shared and saved the essence of the romantic dream while enlisting himself not in a program of self-therapy but in political action. So often those who began...
The options open to the United States in coming months will be limited. To cut off aid to the reformist government would be to disillusion many of its present supporters who would turn to the left should promises for reform go unfulfilled. Yet for the Reagan administration to continue support...