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...Distrust of Capitalism...
...addition, Randell said East Europeans generally distrust capitalism...
Taken together, all five books convey a deep distrust of the decade just past. The poet Robert Lowell once wrote in an ode to a friend, "Yet really we had the same life, the generic one/ our generation offered." In much the same way, these tales of the 1980s tend to merge into one generic portrait of vanity, ego and greed. Historians may come to see the '80s in a kinder and more diverse light, but the image of the decade in these books is unquestionably the prevailing one today...
That he can dismiss divestment so cavalierly suggests distrust of Tutu and more fundamentally, of the Board of Overseers...
Certainly every disease has its lobby. But AIDS is the first deadly epidemic to strike an already organized political constituency, the gay-rights movement, which began with a fundamental distrust of mainstream society, including organized medicine. The AIDS lobby, says Columbia law school professor Harold Edgar, "is independent of and really indifferent to the interests of the scientific establishment." AIDS lobbyists have often been motivated by fear and anger about public indifference, or even hostility, to their terrible problem. AIDS activism "has to do with racism and homophobia," says Nesline of ACT UP. "What's new is that queers...