Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race is rated a tossup, but Cannon has several plusses which could bring him victory. The two most important are his seniority (12 years in the Senate) and Nevada's traditional distrust of outsiders which may cause Agnew's efforts to backfire on the Republicans...
...relationship with Bond was much the same as the others at the strike center: distrust growing eventually into reluctant acceptance...
Besides enforcing a pecking order accepted by all, Ardrey argues, successful societies must present a united front to the enemy. The enemy is everyone else. "That animal societies are closed, and kept separated by distrust and antagonism," he writes, "has been a worry to all Utopians devoted to an ultimate brotherhood of man." Yet this xenophobia, which Ardrey considers innate, not only knits a society but defines it: "The stranger is necessary, and antagonism directed against him has a biological basis beyond wishful denial. The hostility assures that the group will consist of familiars...
...litany of irony and error is unending. Emperor Hirohito is outmaneuvered by his military cadre; President Roosevelt is crossed off the confidential list because the generals distrust his advisers. Bureaucracy and blind tradition amplify each error beyond calculation. No single man can be blamed, and no villains or heroes emerge from this foundering, slipshod-and hypnotic-drama. That judgment must hold not only for those who lived it but also for those who filmed it. Three directors, one American (Richard Fleischer) and two Japanese, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, have managed to move crowds and planes, but not the viewer...
Finally, in the mind of one who actually believed it, the happy-matron-career woman notion promoted by Radcliffe is a dreadful illusion, and one which if taken seriously can keep us not only from developing our own possibilities, but from relating to other women. The contempt and distrust women have for each other, even when they are "friends," is the counterpart of the excessive awe we feel towards men, and part of what makes us sense that we would be utterly desolate without a man in our lives...