Word: distruster
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...Senate and 216 to 159 in the House. Members are boasting openly about funneling federal funds into their districts, while assuring voters that they are eliminating waste in other areas of the budget. Incumbents also benefit from a paradox: while voters consistently seem to distrust Congress as a whole, they usually admire their own legislators. Thus North Dakota's veteran G.O.P. Congressman Mark Andrews is considered a shoo-in for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Milton Young. Says a disgruntled Democrat: "Andrews and God occupy the same niche here." Of the House incumbents, 51 have...
Chun admitted that many South Koreans are skeptical of his new-found reformist role. He believes he can reverse the "trend of distrust" by setting a time table for return to civilian rule. He promised that martial law will be lifted in time for the presidential election in March, a month before a new National Assembly will be chosen...
...reason for the expansion, which occurred mainly in East Cambridge and Cambridgeport, was a lack of unions. The natural distrust of the divergent nationalities, combined with an easily accessible competing labor pool in Boston, discouraged organized labor--many strikes were launched and only a very few succeeded. The growth transformed Cambridgeport from "a homogeneous New England village to the beginning of a highly cosmopolitan industrial area. Its biggest industries were high class--the Riverside Press, the Athenaum Press, and Little, Brown and Co. publishers. The one factory that wasn't producing books--Mason and Hamlin Co.,--turned out pianos...
Wallace's basic proposition, the one that has drawn her headlines and hostility, inquiries and insults, is that "there is a profound distrust, if not hatred, between Black men and Black women. It has been nursed along largely by White racism but also by an almost deliberate ignorance on the part of Blacks about the sexual politics of their experience in this country...
...with this parodic version of pastoral that Belgrader achieves his greatest success, a triple irony that reinforces Shakespeare's own distrust of the pastoral mode, mocks his reluctant dependence on it in As You Like It, and turns the ART production into a perpetual round of high and low humor. The pastoral that prospered at the Elizabethan court was a revival of a classical form that set highly refined city-dwellers writing highly refined poetry about a subject they were generally ignorant of, the countryside. At their best, the pastoral poets created extremely allusive, elegant verse; at their worst, they...