Word: disillusionments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fulbright, who left the Senate last year and joined a Washington law firm, blames the "new inquisitorial style" of journalism for spreading "cynicism and disillusion." Says he: "Everything revealed about the CIA or dubious campaign practices may be wholly or largely true, but I have come to feel of late...
In the days and weeks before spring vacation the images become unbearable in their vividness and unruly in their allure. The tolling of the Mem Church bell at the end of a lecture becomes the age-old ring of a village steeple in Italy, calling the peasants from the surrounding...
...policy. President Giscard has called for a summit of the Common Market nations' leaders. If solutions do not emerge soon, Europe could be on its way either to astronomical inflation or mass business failures and double-digit unemployment. These conditions, if allowed to fester, could eventually produce massive disillusionment with Europe's seemingly powerless democratic institutions. The specter of such disillusion makes many Europeans edgy. For widespread despair would no doubt encourage the demagogues of the extreme right and left, as it did in the 1930s, to try to impose their own kind of repressive solutions...
After 2½ years of controversy, the nation's first peacetime wage-price controls died last week, leaving disillusion and double-digit inflation in their wake. Almost immediately, prices began to scoot higher on a wide range of goods, including cars, light bulbs, liquid oxygen, some air-conditioning equipment...
It may be the ultimate irony of this tragedy that Nixon's defensive maneuvers will assure his resignation or impeachment. His frantic movement round the nation may build warm emotion among those who still stand behind him. But apparently the televised spectacles anger the disbelievers all the more and...