Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wallace's basic proposition, the one that has drawn her headlines and hostility, inquiries and insults, is that "there is a profound distrust, if not hatred, between Black men and Black women. It has been nursed along largely by White racism but also by an almost deliberate ignorance on the part of Blacks about the sexual politics of their experience in this country...
...with this parodic version of pastoral that Belgrader achieves his greatest success, a triple irony that reinforces Shakespeare's own distrust of the pastoral mode, mocks his reluctant dependence on it in As You Like It, and turns the ART production into a perpetual round of high and low humor. The pastoral that prospered at the Elizabethan court was a revival of a classical form that set highly refined city-dwellers writing highly refined poetry about a subject they were generally ignorant of, the countryside. At their best, the pastoral poets created extremely allusive, elegant verse; at their worst, they...
...decision, which became official a week later with a vote of the 47-member Council of State, underscored the differences and distrust that separate the government from the opposition political parties. Many of the Sandinista leaders, who enjoy the support of a majority of the Nicaraguan people, are openly scornful of the kind of rigged balloting that characterized the Somoza era. More important, the leadership remembers how the three main Sandinista factions did not join forces until the later days of the anti-Somoza struggle and is fearful that elections could destroy their new-found unity. On the other hand...
...worst terrorist attack in Western Europe since World War II, which authorities attribute to neo-Fascist extremists, demonstrably deepened public distrust of Italian officialdom. Outside the cathedral, a crowd of 200,000 jammed the Piazza Maggiore and made their feelings known. Popular President Alessandro Pertini received only token applause, while Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga and other political leaders were greeted with whistles and boos. Only seven of the victims' coffins were lined up before the main altar for the public Mass; most of the bereaved relatives had preferred to bury their dead privately as an act of protest against...
...Western nations have shown such distrust of the stock market as France. For decades, the average Frenchman has preferred stashing away gold coins to investing in the country's industry. For the past two years, however, the French Bourse has been on a rampage, thanks to a campaign by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to "make the French owners of France...