Word: dispiritedness
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Again, geography is a factor. The competing attractions of the exciting metropolitan area, coupled with the housing problems that induce a majority of the faculty to live outside Manhattan, operate as centrifugal forces. Yet the dispirited quality of student life outside the classroom is not beyond the University's power...
With the impending Humphrey disaster which will probably carry the senatorial candidate down to defeat, an active liberal campaign by Kennedyite Michael Mills for the 1969 gubernatorial nomination against the dispirited regulars could conceivably put Mills in office. Once in office the patronage--which still controls vitually all the politics...
The week began on a hopeful note that quickly turned ominous. Premier Georges Pompidou and union leaders, after all-night negotiations, agreed early Monday morning to huge and highly inflationary wage settlements in order to end the strike that had idled half of France's 16 million-man industrial...
Thompson reasons this way: Prime Minister Churchill had presided over a long string of military disasters. By August 1942, Singapore had fallen, Crete was gone, and the British were being hit hard everywhere. The nation desperately needed a great victory and a greater hero. With the sure hand of a...
End & Beginning. Webb's early success is all the more striking because he was so recently at rock bottom, emotionally as well as economically. The son of a Baptist minister, he was raised in Oklahoma and Texas, started music studies at California's San Bernardino Valley College in...