Word: distruster
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...matters are improving and will get even better. The vast majority want to work through the existing system-economic and political power-for further improvements. But most of all, black Americans see their own militance and strength winning the battle for equality over a white-run system. They increasingly distrust that system, as a whole, even though a majority report remarkably smooth relations with white people...
...really pathological or simply adaptive. If judged by the majority of the prevailing culture, they could be called pathological. But from the black person's standpoint, they have been patterns he has had to use to make it." It is scarcely paranoid, for instance, for the black to distrust and fear the white society. Says Dr. William Malamud Jr., a white psychiatrist in Boston: "What's labeled as pathology is very often psychic health in blacks. You can say: 'How else would you expect them...
...their Chamber of Commerce talk about long-range planning, many U.S. businessmen have shown a deep-seated distrust of planning, particularly by the Government. They have often been surprised and overwhelmed by the extent of growth and demand. In some cases they did not spend enough for expansion because the slow growth of the late 1950s and early 1960s misled them into believing that American consumers were becoming sated. But in many instances, managers simply skimped on spending to dress up their balance sheets. Says Mason Haire, professor of management at M.I.T.: "Too many companies still reward executives for short...
BUSINESS (1928): Within the last 50 years, business has been jockeyed, especially in America, into a defensive, suspicious, false tory position. Defensive, because business, the great innovator in all else, is popularly conceived of as opposing political innovation. Suspicious, because its distrust of politicians is exceeded only by its contempt for them. False, because a tory businessman is as unnatural as a liberal Dalai Lama. You often hear that silly remark that the least government is the best government-silly because, like the concept of anarchy, it is Utopian. It will come true in heaven, in which time and place...
...Murdoch introduces a favorite character of hers, the mean, mysterious catalyst. This time it is a famous scientist named Julius King, who is a latter-day lago, if not the Devil himself. Arriving in London and finding his friends happy is too much for Julius. Playing on vanity, sowing distrust he labors suavely to link Rupert with Hilda's younger sister and Simon with himself. As the plot unravels, the book shifts from comedy to melodrama, to tragedy-a course few writers could control or sustain. Miss Murdoch nearly manages it, because her presence is so forcefully stamped...