Word: distrusters
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...convinced that somebody else was getting everything, while it was getting nothing more than the shaft." Boston's cursing, stone-throwing resistance to busing was not the reaction of "a liberal city being hypocritical." Instead, it was "a parochial city with a long history of ethnic and racial distrust and bigotry" integrating its schools with fear, anger and some violence-but with remarkably few deaths or serious injuries...
...confession, Gullis explained that he ignored the real results because he was carried away by enthusiasm for his hypothesis: "I was so convinced of my ideas that I simply put them down on paper." But Hamprecht, who had no reason to distrust Gullis when he signed four of the original papers as a coauthor, is still puzzled. He feels Gullis-or any researcher-should know that "lies in science have short legs." That is, they cannot outrun the truth...
...otherwise have more in common than either cares to admit. Hussein rules a rather shaky dynasty that was created by Western powers after World War I; Arafat is the strongest chieftain in a fragmented Palestinian movement that is principally held together by hatred of Israel-and distrust of other Arab rulers. Both have a genius for survival, a talent for accommodation...
...that magnificent height he alone of contemporary leading men can scale and declares his opposition to political violence on the grounds that it "reeks of spontaneity." It is the only moment in the film that one feels comes from the hearts of Director Resnais and Writer Mercer, whose distrust of the spontaneous is woven into every tedious frame of this stupefying work. Calculation is their bag, and they have calculated the life right out of a conceit that clearly was not much to begin with...
When the "hot-shot-cop from Minnesota," as some Harvard patrolmen ambivalently refer to their chief, came here in 1975, he initiated major changes in the role of the Harvard policeman, and today the Police Association claims these changes have precipitated "distrust" and "low morale" in the force...