Mr Billington's enthusiasm withers in the 1970s: a time of disappointment, disillusion and a pervasive sense of despair.
The Saudi I interviewed seemed relieved to have been captured, because his service in the insurgency, he said, was a time of unhappy disillusion.
At a time of doubt and disillusion, her unswerving belief in her own convictions proved to be her most important characteristic.
In the wider countercultural context of the time, with disillusion increasingly rife with each post-Woodstock rock event, commentators viewed the concerts as, in the words of Rolling Stone, "a brief incandescent revival of all that was best about the Sixties".
You're pledging allegiance to an ongoing saga of disillusion and enlightenment at the same time".
However, it was a prosperous time for farmers, and so mobilized support for the legislation was in shorter supply than it might have been during a time of economic hardship; Brownlee, newly disillusioned with bankers, withdrew the bill.
Beyond that, the result indicates the depth of disillusion in one working-class seat at a time of austerity.
China, he explained, was a "so-called" communist country.The American public was bought off with the sentimental notion that ever closer ties would make China "more like us", a dangerous simplification which encouraged predictable disillusion at the time of Tiananmen.
"Displeasing people; pockets of disillusion; impatience and frustration.
