Word: disillusionment
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Furthermore, a devastating disillusion cost Nixon whole brigades of his most loyal supporters four years ago, after the tapes revealed that he had lied in his frantic exertions at self-defense and survival. One aide told him bitterly, according to Theodore H. White, "Those who served you best hate you...
Developing the intellect was clearly the highest priority at Radcliffe in those years, taking precedence over less academic pursuits such as community involvement, political work or social criticism. "The meeting of minds" was stressed more than the need to reform society. Here were elements of the retreat into individualism that...
THAT THE CIA should be fired, or, more accurately, that the CIA's clandestine operations should be abolished, is the conclusion of the latest revelatory book about the CIA, John Stockwell's In Search of Enemies. Stockwell should know. He grew up in what is now Zaire with missionary parents...
Disillusion was immediate. "The severed heads changed my political disposition," recalled Chateaubriand, until then a disciple of Rousseau and a believer in the brotherhood of man. Rather than join the exodus of conspiring nobles, he conjured up his own plot: a voyage to America. "What's the use of...
U.S.A. is the portrait of a national illusion, or rather, of national disillusion. The closer America moved toward that disillusionment, the farther away its people grew from themselves, running about and seemingly never exerting even a modicum of control over their own lives. America of this period is well suited for a novel or play that examines that superficiality and gets at the pain lying beneath it. But Manulis's U.S.A. omits far too much of what transpires beneath the surface. What remains after the newsreel and strung together character collages is a superficial play about superficial people...