Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FAULT, though, lies not only with white insensitivity, but also with Black hypersensitivity. Often motivated by mistrust and misunderstanding, white separate themselves from Blacks in the dining halls and at parties. In Leverett House, for example, a handful of Blacks sit at tables which are predominantly white. But even rarer is the white who will comfortably sit at a table of all--or nearly all--Black students...
...were doing. The mission, of course, was an utter disaster, and it taught Kennedy several important lessons. One was that truculently self-confident experts, such as generals and CIA men, can be ludicrously wrong. After the Bay of Pigs, according to his special counsel, Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy came to mistrust military solutions...
THAT REACTION comes through loud and clear, helped by some strong actors and a director who sticks cautiously to a few basic note--squalor, loneliness, weired twistings of communication, and a creeping, gradually dominating mistrust. Cutler lets the cast carry Shepard's heavy messages, but he doesn't add much dramatic shape or thrust. Too ofen, the dialogue sags unbearably under the weight of its pregnant pauses; at other times, mostly in Act One, the actors lose track of their speeches meaning and say everything with the same flat air of significance...
...Paradise, More's Utopia, Rousseau, Kant, Marx and the American Dream, which saw the millennium in everything new. No longer. Our antiutopian visions do not presume new discoveries so much as the perversion of things already known, the bleakness of these images due less to a mistrust of science than of basic human nature...
...assistant judges, established by Vermont's 18th century constitution, are a remnant of the hostility toward lawyers that many of the original colonists brought with them from England. That mistrust persists to this day. Vermonters are fond of pointing out to strangers that in the Green Mountain State's peculiar twang, the word lawyer comes out sounding like "liar...