Word: distruster
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...only faced with the traditional forces that encourage homosexuals to hate themselves, but also must contend with a strong counterpressure to deny even to themselves whatever conflict, pain, or anguish they feel." Says homosexual Poet Allen Ginsberg: "I think a lot of homosexual conflict comes from internalizing society's distrust of your loves, finally doubting your own loves, and therefore not being able to act on them...
Medicinal Value. Edith Foster Farwell of Lake Forest, Ill., who has written three books on herbs, believes that many young people are turning to herbal medicines because they distrust most pharmaceutical products. "I get a lot of letters from people who want me to cure this or that," she says. One of her most frequent requests is for a potion to cure warts; she recommends juice from the celandine plant, which was used for that purpose in colonial times...
...rampant; Communism is making dangerous advances in Portugal, Italy and elsewhere. By no means can all of this be blamed on the Soviet Union. The chief fault is the internal weakness of many Western European societies. Yet détente has had the inevitable effect of reducing Western European distrust of Communism and fostering the belief that the danger of Communist subversion is past. To the extent that Helsinki reinforces that belief, it holds danger for the West...
...jobs. It keeps prices stable by fixing them, almost invariably at high levels in terms of real income. Yet even the meanness of living standards in such a system may have a certain attraction for millions of people outside those countries who are repelled or surfeited by commercial values. Distrust of money lies deep in the West's history, from St. Francis of Assisi and the Anabaptists to the modern romantics. Authoritarian economies are as materialistic as capitalism, if not more so, but they are often
Sectarian Distrust. Karami proposed a Cabinet, therefore, that would exclude both extreme right-and left-wing groups until the country had calmed down, but his proposal fell on deaf ears. So far the underlying issues -which cut to the heart of Lebanon's sectarian distrust between Christians and Moslems-have proved to be insoluble. "The difficulty in resolving the political crisis," observed a Western diplomat, "has hindered the resolution of the security crisis." At one point Karami threatened to give up his efforts to form a government, but by week's end had been persuaded by his colleagues...