Word: dispiritedness
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Kennedy had every reason to be dispirited. But he had long contended that his sole reason for continuing the futile challenge to the President was to check what he saw as his party's drift toward conservative economic policies and away from its liberal social values. The Senator wanted one...
A Gallup poll has found that teacher laziness and lack of interest are the most frequent accusations of half the nation's parents, who complain that students get "less schoolwork" now than 20 years ago. Whether the parent perceptions are fair or not, there is no doubt that circumstances...
Of all the presidential candidates, John Anderson sounded the most critical note. Said he: "This is a very painful thing for a country that is dispirited at the moment because of the protracted nature of the crisis. This is one more blow to the body politic in the sense that...
It is 32 years since the birth of Israel, when most of the Palestinians fled or were forced from the land. Instead of having melded into the populations of Arab states that reluctantly offered them shelter, the Palestinians have transformed themselves from a dispirited band of exiles into a dispossessed...
The sand has run out for these lost worlds. In Yemen during the late '60s, Thesiger watches as the medieval mountain fortresses of royalist chieftains are turned into rubble by Nasser's air force. In 1977 he returns to Arabia to find desert life transformed by oil. There...