Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broader way, Flaubert's Parrot also reflects the strange relationship with French culture that the British have always had, a profound--and mostly unreciprocated--appreciation existing under the shadow of centuries-old contempt and mistrust. (It's no mistake that France 1848-1945. The best and most comprehensive book on French culture, should have been written by an Oxford professor, Theodore Zeldin.) Braithwalie is a Gallophile as only an Englishman can be, revelling in the wine-tasting, the pharmacies, the road signs, the myriad facets of everyday, life with a delight unmediated by the ever-present chauvinism of the French...
...Thousands of words have been spent discussing the unrepentant old radical; this obituary captures him in three sentences: "He never learned to swim . . . He would immerse his body in the alien element but declined or perhaps feared to move with it. His resistance to swimming with the tide, his mistrust of currents, were his strength...
That same air of mistrust and turbulence has soured relations between the government and its opposition. Last August, for the first time, the government held elections for parliamentary candidates to represent the nation's 2.8 million people of mixed race and its 850,000 Indians. Yet under the new constitution, South Africa's 23 million blacks still have no national voice whatever. In protest, the U.D.F. led a boycott of the elections that resulted in less than a third of the eligible nonwhites casting votes. Afterward, the government detained a number of the organization's top representatives without charge. Last...
...POOR MEXICO," the saying goes, "so far from god and so close to the United States." Coined by a Mexican president in the late 1800s, the saying remains ample evidence of the fear and mistrust Mexicans have always felt toward their northern neighbor. Not without reason: In a war largely forgotten on this side of the Rio Grande, the U.S. in 1848 seized almost half of Mexico's territory. In 1914 and 1916 we invaded Mexico again, to control a revolution whose outcome we feared...
...Lady does not always get her way. When Clark became Interior Secretary, she wanted Baker to replace Clark as National Security Adviser, with Deaver becoming White House chief of staff. The plan foundered, however, when it was opposed by Administration conservatives, particularly Meese and CIA Director William Casey, who mistrust the highly flexible pragmatism of Baker and Deaver...