Word: dispiritedness
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For the moment, the regulars didn't give much of a hang about the issues. What they liked was that both Barry Goldwater and Sherman Adams tub-thumped in the manner that old-style Republicans remembered-and like, especially at campaign time. Both had raised more G.O.P. whoops and...
Poet Paul Verlaine was the youngest of four children-the three others, stillborn, were kept pickled in bottles by their doting mother. This might have dispirited Paul; instead, he grew to manhood with a sunny nature and an easy-breezy charm. Far from being rebellious, he always obeyed instantly-particularly...
Its own officials deplore the U.S. postal service as a relic of shabby inefficiency, but no harsh words do it quite the justice of The Great Billion Dollar Mail Case, which brought Edward R. Murrow back to a new season of See It Now on CBS this week. Cameras behind...
The nation's dispirited home builders, whose forecasts for 1957 have slipped steadily lower, last week heard the first good news to come out of Washington in a long, hard winter. With predictions for as few as 800,000 home starts this year, v. 1,100,000 in 1956...
Thus the gin-bashing cronies of Milton Hall, hero of this brilliant first novel, might have summarized his brief and dreadful career as a British colonial officer in Malaya. The story is set in the fictional district of Telebu. State of Mandore. a few hours by car from Singapore. To...