Word: distruster
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Reading COINTELPRO, it is difficult to gauge the FBI's effectiveness in disrupting its targets. These documents show that the bureau failed to foment splits between groups like the SWP and the Student Mobilization Committee. But it undoubtedly created a prevalent atmosphere of distrust on the left (dismissed by many at the time as paranoia). The program was also enormously successful in damaging the lives and careers of individual activists, perhaps the most immediately tragic aspect of the affair. Because these documents deal primarily with COINTELPRO-SWP, they do not shed any light on the organizations which did split, with...
Some apathy. Considerable cynicism. A restless quest for serenity. A rising concern over spiritual and moral values. Continuing distrust of institutions, but increasing confidence in the future...
...closely with faculty and students take over. If he continues to refuse to resign, the board of trustees should take it upon themselves to remove him from office. The university cannot continue to function normally, much less to go through a severe economic crisis, in the pervasive atmosphere of distrust that now exists at Boston University...
Otto Friedrich is a journalist, and like many in his profession he prefers straightforward language to erudite terminology. Throughout Going Crazy he displays a justifiable distrust of psychiatry (though he is quite enamored of its statistics). He seems caught up by a certain notion of truth, a belief that if, well, he could just lay out some examples and facts without any of those bothersome philosophical definitions, he could reveal the essence of "madness in our time". The result is a huge mass of material, quite interesting in and of itself, but leading to a subjective nowhere, without form...
...provide a place for students who could not afford to live in the River Houses. From the beginning its members prized their independence and espoused a fierce egalitarianism. Over the years they have followed Bertrand Russell's precept that the first duty of the citizen is to distrust his leaders...