Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wiped them from the roster of "serious" art. Even today, Boucher's work-a fine sampling of which, drawn from North American collections, opened last week at Washington's National Gallery-seems a rather indefensible pleasure. Of course it is not; we have merely been taught to distrust his unalloyed, socially pliable hedonism...
...despite the horrific panorama of television, with its free helpings of violence and the "gimmes" of commercials, the American child is more than a passive victim. Distrust of TV advertisements rises with age-and not every age watches the worst programs. For the first time since the invention of the transistor, TV is offering some attractive alternatives to Astroboy and Popeye. A generation has learned to spell with the Muppets of Sesame Street. The Electric Company has attracted an audience of millions-many of them parents who came to turn on the set and stayed to learn...
...Guinea Party) won control with 59 seats, drawing its main strength from the people of the coastal cities, whose education and contact with the outside world had enabled them to lead an independence movement. But the more primitive highlanders in the interior fear exploitation by their coastal brethren and distrust self-government...
...Mutual Distrust. The talks apparently did nothing to dispel the sense of mutual distrust that has long plagued Kissinger's relations with Japan. Both sides issued bland statements to the effect that Kissinger "understood Japan's serious predicament." But the phraseology was diplomatic euphemism. After Tanaka explained Japan's economic predicament, Kissinger's rather cold-nosed reply was that while he understood the situation, the state of the Japanese economy and what to do about it was not really his problem...
Nicolson was commissioned not only to end the two lines' steep financial dive, but also to merge them into one carrier, British Airways. A newcomer to airlines, he was at first greeted with distrust. Workers, fearing mass layoffs after the merger, even threatened not to paint new insignia on the planes. So Nicolson, 51, came in like a lamb. He set up no fewer than 20 worker-management committees to determine everything from the merged line's colors to the future of its cargo operations. By combining separate operations-like the carriers' computer systems...