Word: distruster
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Principally, Walker waded into "censors" and "censorship" of the sort that had landed him in hot Army waters. Said he: "Censors dislike and distrust the military mind, and want to change it or get rid of it." Censorship, to Walker, is "the paralysis or denial of everything mental or physical that a commander, his command or a soldier requires for the full employment of his weapons and entire capability-the wherewithal of victory. To investigate censorship thoroughly is to defend States' rights. The responsibility rests with the individual to be knowledgeable, conditioned, and alert to identify unAmericanism and possible...
...rainy, unpromising greyness surrounds the short stories of Delmore Schwartz, as it does the fiction of other writers who find the literary quarterlies their most congenial homes. One reason for the quarterly drear seems to be an extreme distrust of the dramatic, arising partly from squeamishness about melodrama, that greatest of sins against artistic sophistication. Another is the honest awareness of serious men that the cavalry rarely does charge into ordinary lives. One might suspect that Schwartz and his colleagues had all been invited to tea by John Marcher-the hero of Henry James's The Beast...
...existence of an independent Katanga would be harmful to the West, since Africans would point to it as an example of neo-colonialism, as grounds for continuing distrust of the West," emphasized Dr. Antoine van Bilsen, former adviser to Congo president Joseph V. Kasavubu, in an interview yesterday...
Such a policy, he said, is shortsighted because it would open the Congo to communist penetration. A Congo without Katanga would be economically dependent on outside aid and would probably look to the communist-bloc for help because of distrust of the West...
...most Council officers, this seemed to indicate a distrust among upperclassmen of the Council for past abuses, although the freshmen, who are not so aware of the recent past, saw nothing wrong with calling the new group the Student Council...