Word: disillusionment
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...stay on board. Some were restive and disgruntled because the President had put silver piping on their uniforms while only a favored few had gold, but as long as the provisions held out, they were happy enough. In time, however, liquor and money were replaced by boredom and disillusionment. When at last the yacht reached Southampton, the passengers, thoroughly fed up and no longer so fearful of war, debarked and found their own way back to Holland. Last August, when President Robert himself came limping home, he was promptly tossed in a Maastricht jail, accused of swindling...
Here, again, the storm-tossed mariner comes staggering through the surf to begin his 28 years of bitter exile on a desert island. At first, Crusoe rejoices in survival itself, then in the happy rescue of guns and supplies from his ship, wrecked on a nearby reef. With the ship...
Stevenson began his analysis of Soviet power and the Allied counterchecks with a description of U.S. disillusion after World War II, "when the treacherous Russian bear, our comrade in arms, rose up to bite the hand that fed it . . .
Among the critics who have taken hope from the shift is the New York Times's Howard Devree. Until recently, he recalls, "arguments were put forth in various quarters that the picture existed for itself in its own right−that the colors and forms employed were sufficient unto...
Faust stands in contrast to the vast impersonal forces of Nature, the earthy pleasures of the Folk, and Satan's cynical malice. Except for a brief moment of enchanted sleep, the Devil offers him only a brutal bird's eye view of earth and its blasphemies: armies on the march...