Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could be standing here next to the President of the United States. And if my origin can contribute anything to the formulation of our policy, it is that at an early age I have seen what can happen to a society that is based on hatred and strength and distrust... America has never been true to itself unless it meant something beyond itself. As we work for a world at peace with justice, compassion and humanity, we know that America, in fulfilling man's deepest aspirations, fulfills what is best within...
...Department's future is no more certain now than when the Department was founded four years ago. Perhaps it is wrong to greet each new era in the Department's history on a gloomy note--and Afro is on the verge of a new era. But the cynicism and distrust that has always surrounded the Department's development is typical of the troubles of Harvard's black studies program...
...increased literacy and public curiosity. In addition, Darwinism had cut deeply into faith, adding to normal end-of-the-century malaise a vague sense of guilt and anxiety. One result of all that was a widespread hunger for tales of horror and apocalypse. Wells, who had a profound distrust of perfectibility through industrial progress, fed this hunger with his best-known and still widely read novels: The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. They were all written between 1895 and 1897. In an argument that is echoed today by many...
...admit semi-defeat. I can see only one benefit from these bird droppings, and that is a new fad I suppose to start right now. We merely add Seagull to the end of anyone's name whom we distrust. Try, John W. Dean Seagull III, or Senator Edward M. Kennedy Seagull '54 (D-Mass.), or even Erich Segal Seagull. Children understand...
...seeking absolution for himself or Nixon of the Administration's troubles, nor is he seeking diversion. That time is past. He knows that doubts and distrust now plague him. He has had his moments of arrogance and made mistakes, but his work has transcended those things, and that is why people still listen...