Word: mistrust
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...survey by the local paper in an important provincial Hungarian city, Pecs, showed that there was considerable political apathy among the students in Pecs University. Attitudes of mistrust, cynicism, and even hostility to politics were found. Similar apolitical attitudes appeared in one of the surveys conducted by the Hungarian youth organization (KIST). In responding to the question of how they used their free time, students indicated that they preferred literature and the arts, young workers preferred television, sports, and dancing, and peasant youth occupied themselves with cards, bowling, and sessions at the village inn. There was no significant spontaneous devotion...
...young are probably luckier than their predecessors, so we feel rather envious and accuse them of being little monsters. Are they? To my mind they are hardly different from previous young generations. It is our nature to call them freaks, theirs to mistrust us. And their inheritance is not all roses, but they manage. They face religion boldly, honestly, making us look the old fools we are. As for sex, with which we are happily or unhappily obsessed, it is no problem to them; they are cutting it to size...
...single TV camera!" A more compelling reason for adult angst is that the young seem curiously unappreciative of the society that supports them. "Don't trust anyone over 30," is one of their rallying cries. Another, "Tell it like it is," conveys an abiding mistrust of what they consider adult deviousness...
...Johnson's problems with the economy, the war and civil rights have deepened, so has public mistrust of the man. "He is an egotistical, maniacal, triple-plated son of a bitch, that's what he is," growls a Coloradan in an irrational but not atypical reaction to the man. "Johnson said we could have both guns and butter," says a Los Angeles housewife. "But he didn't say how much the butter was going to cost." Yet on the issue that has inspired more nationwide and worldwide antagonism toward L.B.J. than any other-Viet Nam-a Congressional...
...position as a stepping-stone to the governorship. The plight of DFL's intellectual aristocracy is even worse though, for if the Democrats win, leadership of what once was a potent arm of liberalism will fall to a crochety maverick they tried to repudiate and an opportunist they throoughly mistrust...