Word: distruster
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...overpowering false persuasions of Pachoda's Iago. Curt Anderson is an Othello of imposing appearance but with a somewhat lesser capacity for tortured response to Iago's calculated hints. But if it weren't that Othello's peculiar virtue is trust in other men--and his peculiar vice to distrust his own feelings in the unfamiliar pursuit of love--the battle wouldn't be worth the fighting. Iago so overpowers the Moor that pity keeps us on Othello's side much longer than hope. Though he plays with just enough confidence and grace in the Venetian scenes. Anderson breaks...
...little would come of the week's work, spewed forth her unhappiness: "Are you going to be a national organization? Are we going to have principles?" Other criticisms followed, some of them maligning the national leadership. After listening for about ten minutes, co-director Fernandez responded in kind: "The distrust in this room is just incredible....Do you think this is some game we've been playing for the last four months?" "No, for the last four days," a black woman answered...
What happened to Johnson's deep distrust of generals and admirals? He carried it with him from the Congress up to the threshold of the presidency. Had it been intact in the Oval Office, Viet Nam might have been a different story. The official White House transcripts of the Johnson days show the high brass to be invincible warriors of unsurpassed wisdom; history has disproved that and Johnson used to know better...
Over the debate, as well, hovered the Briton's traditional insular distrust of things Continental, of losing his national sovereignty, and of seeing his way of life transformed. It is a fear that, as Anthony Burgess put it, "England is to be absorbed, her own distinctive character sordined, and the end of a great Empire be completed in the bastardisation of a great empire-building nation...
...Mexican president. They claim that a student party would be bought off by the president like other protest groups in the past. Castillo is Echeverria's dupe, they say, and the president would exhibit the impotent student party as proof to Western visitors that he accepts opposition. Their utter distrust for the system has led these student groups to more radical activity than forming political parties. Some groups have joined the guerrilla movements in the mountainous states surrounding Mexico City...