Word: dispiritedness
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In LAOS, the decay of the U.S. position has gone ever further. From the beginning, Washington hoped somehow to avoid having to accept Prince Souvanna Phouma as Premier of Laos. Last week the hope went glimmering. In a candy-striped tent on the Lik River, at meetings punctuated by toasts...
As Central moved to its present ratio of 90% Negro, tension lessened. "You have most of the problem when you have no definite majority," says able Principal James Boyd, who took over in 1959. "When you have a definite majority, it reduces friction." But that only half explains the story...
In a brief but perceptive introduction, Poirier correctly blames the generally "dispirited condition of contemporary fiction" for the quality of current magazines--not vice versa. He directs his criticism toward those writers in whom he finds a failure to develop a personal voice and, hence, "a surrender to certain fashionable...
What with the humiliating Congo defeat, the winter's long labor riots and the nation's economic malaise, Belgium was limp, dispirited and hardly in a mood for another round of national elections. Not even the campaign speeches of popular Paul-Henri Spaak. who quit as NATO Secretary...
With a socio-philosophical turn of mind and a sometimes puckish, sometimes pawkish humor, Macdonald has also shown a scholar's doggedness in sifting a stupefying quantity of material, and in separating the living wit from the dead cats flung in literary battles long ago. The parody buff will...