Word: distrusters
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...patient's concern, his uneasiness, about doctors and doctoring is deeply ingrained. Because mankind has been so utterly and helplessly dependent on him, the doctor touches man's profoundest anxieties, eliciting both nervous humor and distrust. Said Voltaire: "Doctors pour drugs of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing." George Bernard Shaw gibed that doctors score only triumphs, since their mistakes are always buried. Over the ages, doctors have compounded both the awe and the anxiety by acting as a self-anointed priesthood whose rites...
Even that specific rule, with its insistence on the importance of the "focus" point, struck the four dissenters as all wrong. Not only is the rule unworkable "unless police cars are equipped with public defenders," declared Justice Byron White, but it "reflects a deep-seated distrust of law-enforcement officers everywhere." Said Justice John M. Harlan...
...enmities past and lighted by amity present. Apart from a 1960 "courtesy visit" to John XXIII by Ramsey's predecessor, Geoffrey Fisher, no Archbishop of Canterbury had called on a Pope since Archbishop Arundel went to see Boniface IX in 1397, long before Henry VIII broke with Rome. Distrust of the papacy still persists strongly in Britain. Hitchhiking aboard the airliner winging Ramsey to Rome were five unwelcome ministers of Baptist and Presbyterian sects, who on arrival doffed their black jackets to expose white tunics with identical slogans: "Archbishop Ramsey -a traitor to Protestant England...
Obviously Americans have their impatient streak. They distrust patience when it seems only to mask indecision or lack of initiative, the kind of patience that Psychiatrist Eric Berne (Games People Play) has in mind when he says: "Most people spend their life waiting for Santa Claus or death." Americans occasionally admire but basically fail to understand the legendary Oriental patience, which is based on a religious view that sees existence as an inescapable treadmill. In fact, Asians themselves are impatiently copying Western civilization, and they are beginning to recognize that what is seen as patience is often merely resignation...
During the past year President Johnson's distrust of White House correspondents and of the majority of political columnists has not subsided. The press's criticism of the Vietnam policy and its frequent inflation warnings are partly responsible for this taut, uneasy relationship. But the roots of the impasse lie in the President's limited conception of the press's privileges and responsibilities...