Word: distruster
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...common factor underlying all these issues is a sense of distrust. The students are clearly not satisfied with the administration's statements. In the sexual harassment issue, the administration is repeatedly emphasizing that it is taking firm disciplinary action against the harasser and students are repeatedly asking for proof that this action is not a mere tap on the wrists. I am not being patronizing about the administration but it is clear that they have not botched the job of governing this college in the past decade. Then why the distrust on the part of the students? Why the accusations...
...hereditary mantle fell to his son Walid, a mercurial, motorbike-riding young man usually seen in faded blue jeans and a leather jacket. Although Walid, 36, has remained true to his father's principles, many of his countrymen regard him as a weak-willed puppet. They especially distrust his wary alliance with the Syrians, who are widely believed to have engineered his father's murder. Nonetheless, the Druze wholeheartedly support their leader. Last December, as Walid recuperated from a second attempt on his life, crowds gathered outside the hospital. Their faithful chant: "With blood and spirit, we will...
...should not worry about it, and that Afghanistan was really not worth mentioning, since it might pact Third World and Eastern Bloc representatives to the Council. Now we have a Crimson editorial blaming the callous destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on the continuing atmosphere of distrust brought on by the Cold War, and an article by Errol T. Louis which accepts as gospel Russian propaganda claiming the Korean jetliner was really a spy plane, and thus Korea, and by extension the U.S. is to blame for the incident...
...scenes set in the early 1970's, at the height of anti-war activism, underline the contrasts between the society of Daniel's young adulthood, and that of his parents: the political faith of both the Isaacsons and the society which condemned them is lost to a cynical distrust of political institutions and ideologies. The change is reflected in Daniel's contrast with his sister. Susan (Amanda Plummer), who inherits her parents political faith, actively parties panting in the anti-war movement while Daniel is a politically apathetic graduate student. The intensity of Susan's involvement in politics eventually leads...
...pressures not only Mao's isolation but his growing distrust of the Soviet Union. "Mao's visits to Russia were not only very short but very unpleasant, " said Hu. Mao believed that the Soviets had bureaucratized their revolution, had betrayed Marxism, were traitors to Communism ? revisionists! If the Soviets had succumbed to bureaucracy, might not the same thing happen in China? Thus, a growing suspicion that revisionism and class enemies might be infecting even his own party. On went Hu, describing the paranoia growing. Mao had disliked intellectuals ever since he had been a $30-a-month librarian...