Word: disillusionments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The real importance of the scandals and the disillusion in The Great Bridge is as a back drop to the progress of the bridge itself. The bridge took 14 years and at least 20 lives to build, left Washington Roebling who succeeded his father as chief engineer, a lifelong invalid...
Whatever one may call the whole business there is vast indifference about it all. Indignation has been lost, says Columnist Joseph Kraft, in a disillusion with people in high places. Kraft quotes a man who says, "To most people [Government corruption] just one bunch of thieves robbing another bunch of...
America cannot be completely absolved from responsibility for the assassinations, if only because it has created the conditions in which the killers live and flourish. Something in U.S. society leads them to favor one particular outlet, now morbidly familiar. The assassinations are, in a way, a reflection of the emotionalism...
Baldwin seems particularly aware of his vulnerability in No Name in the Street, a collection of reminiscences raked from his private disasters and public disappointments. The book is walled in by a profound disillusion based partly on the state of the world as Baldwin sees it and partly on the...
In criticizing Nader, though, Mc-Carry complains that Nader criticized the National Traffic Safety Agency after helping establish it-and therefore being bound, McCarry presumes, never to attack it. After his disillusion with Nader's overzealousness, McCarry incongruously follows with a recitation of Nader's underzealousness in supporting...