Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this view Ernest Simmons, onetime Harvard professor and biographer (1937) of Byronic Poet Alexander Pushkin, has little patience. Simmons denies the widespread notion that Siberian exile altered the thought and method of "one of the most original novelists in world literature." Dostoevski's originality combined 1) his distrust for Western European culture; 2) his belief in feeling against reason; 3) his expert, unprecedented child psychology; 4) his caustic satire, especially of radicals in The Possessed; 5) his great character types-the Meek, the Double, the Self-Willed...
Some others distrust the change but few Americans can distrust the spirit with which Editor White outlines the job of his Committee after the war is over, win, lose or draw: "We shall try then to give to American youth the same joy and enthusiasm for freedom of speech, peaceful assemblage, free conscience, trial by jury and the benefits of personal freedom that the Germans have put into their youth by teaching them national pride, race arrogance, and international hatred. We be lieve this is our really big job, bigger than saving Britain as our first line of defense...
Like the rest of my generation I fell under the sway of that "splendid isolationism" that bred a distrust of capitalistic wars and patriotic oratory. Fortunately, I have had my eyes opened...
...That U. S. correspondents on the scene in Germany thoroughly-distrust the news releases of the official press bureau (Dr. Goebbels); that all such correspondents, when they get out, give much more unfavorable accounts of economic and social conditions in Germany than the cables generally carry. - That U. S. correspondents in France have been able to learn virtually nothing...
...Professor Brewer points out very correctly, undergraduates show their distrust of liberal education by choosing fields of concentration which they imagine to be related to their future occupations. They always end up disappointed, as though they had not been told innumerable times that they should not hope for any practical training in their courses. Convinced that they are unprepared for the future, they continue groping for something that might be of "use." But only a systematized liberal education, an orderly presentation of all human thought, can give them this preparation. If they are to gain a solid stock of knowledge...