Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elders' reaction is to abuse him for his weakness. Detail upon horrifying detail is piled with detachment and cold wit. There is no way out of this stifled society; "the giant dwarfs" live what become grotesquely normal day-to-day lives, circumscribed by grossness and materialism, adulterated by mistrust so consuming as to kill off any human emotion...
...Mistrust Melts...
...Nixon's use of the floundering war in Viet Nam for political hay is to be deplored. His proposal, if carried out. would perhaps not involve us in a hot war with Red China, but it would certainly earn us the lasting hatred and mistrust of millions of Southeast Asians...
...medieval outlook on Church and clergy. At no time was anticlericalism so rampant as in the Age of Faith. Analagously, some physicians have the greatest respect for psychiatry and would not hesitate to refer patients to psychiatrists; yet in their hearts they view psychiatrists with a certain mistrust and professional disdain...
...tone of jaunty worldliness, Barzini's is a cry of despair: "The tenacity and the eagerness with which the individual pursues his private interests and defends himself from society, his mistrust of noble ideals and motives, the splendid show, the all-pervading indulgence for man's foibles, make Italian life pleasant and bearable in spite of poverty, tyranny and injustice. They also waste the efforts and the sacrifices of the best Italians and make poverty, tyranny and injustice very difficult to defeat...