Word: distruster
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...government of his native Sweden-"the land of the nonadult, the disenfranchised, the mutes"-had tried to suppress his work as "blasphemy." Penniless, he settled in Paris with one summer suit to his name, for summer or winter wear. His second marriage was going badly, confirming his obsessive distrust of women who, he said, "admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature, peddlers of wooden spoons-everything mediocre." He himself was close to madness -a shabby, shuffling figure who dabbled in alchemy and black magic and once nearly committed suicide. He was addicted to absinthe, but he had one outlet that...
...wonders fitfully, through it all, why so many intellectuals continue to distrust him--even when they readily acknowledge his courage and skill in Moscow and Caracas. He concludes, with a truly disquieting ingenuousness, that his role in the Hiss case marked him; those who refused to believe in Hiss' guilt disliked him for convincing them they were wrong. What he does not realise is that his theory is only partly right. They dislike him largely because they do not suppose his nicer suits, quieter ties, and speeches about diplomacy rather than subversives to be evidences that he has changed very...
...effect, Monday's decision is a big step towards freeing America from the domination of its own rural past. A distrust of cities--Jefferson called them "Sinks of voluntary misery"--is built into the machinery of the present American political system. A progressive disenfranchisement of city voters has taken place for the last fifty years; and every year the imbalance between the city and the farm has become more intolerable. The average value of the big city vote in the 1960 elections was less than half the average value of the vote in rural parts of the country...
...perhaps Communism's greatest failure that nowhere has it satisfied man's most fundamental demand in life, to be properly fed. Throughout the Communist empire, from Castro's Cuba to Mao's China, breadline societies are an inevitable result of Marxism's ingrained distrust of the peasantry and its insistence on headlong industrialization...
These isolated cases suggest a more general malady which ought to be closely investigated. The pattern of corporation giving since 1945 reflects distrust of health agencies in general. In 1947-48 corporations and foundations gave three times as much money for health and welfare as for education. In 1960 on the other hand the ratio was one to one; and the move away from health and welfare donations continues to accelerate. Private donors are likewise becoming disillusioned with the menagerie of voluntary health agencies. If their vital public service is to continue, a general overhaul is necessary...