Word: dispiritedness
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Fantasy completely takes over when the consort, on a world tour, stops at the Backward Islands, a tropical paradise ruled by a plump old bawd of an empress who believes that her subjects should do what comes naturally. What comes most naturally is dancing, making love, and drinking; and once...
Sir: Please accept my congratulations. It is good that you have neither spared criticism nor yielded to any temptation to exaggerate some of our minor successes. I must, however, disagree with your statement: "India without Nehru stands dispirited and disillusioned." After the death of a dynamic Prime Minister or President...
The ashes of Jawaharlal Nehru have long since disappeared into the silt of the Ganges, carrying with them the faint shadow of the rose he always wore in his lapel. Gone with the Pandit is the image of India as a moral bulwark of the "nonaligned" world, a pious mediator...
A CHILD'S INTRODUCTION TO READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC (Golden) bounces through the three Rs with catchy tem pos, infectious lyrics, and clever character profiles. The number zero, for example, is a rather dispirited down and outer: "Dear little zero/Queer little zero/ He's nearly fat as he...
A fatigued and dispirited Faculty will meet once again, tomorrow, to discuss general education. As a government professor said yesterday, "this debate has generated into a confusing, and very boring, circus." From a distance, of course, the debate has seemed anything but boring. Tempers have flared; grandiose schemes have been...