Word: mistrust
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...merely handed them out to their students. Harvard not only had one of its top administrators (Dean Monro) sign all slips -- something many schools did -- but also numbered the forms and insisted that students sign out for a certain number at any one tmie. Apparently an example of exaggerated mistrust of students, this was only a reflection of an exaggerated concern with meeting the requirements of the law: Harvard wanted some formal "control" over the forms instead of dispensing them freely as some colleges...
Despite all the mistrust, hostility and open hatred that scar relations between white and black, a July Gallup poll showed that only 34% of the whites questioned would consider moving out if Negroes moved next door. Three years ago the figure was 45%. The fact is that few whites are likely to face the problem for years. "If there were open housing all over the nation tomorrow," says Chicago Sociologist Philip Hauser, "it would still take over a generation for the present housing pattern to change. The majority of Negroes don't want to live in white areas...
Where the utopian left felt more than a generalized mistrust of power, it objected to both the foreign and domestic policies of the administration. In foreign affairs, some regarded the cold war as the invention of the military-industrial complex and supposed that, if only Washington changed its course, Moscow and Peking would gladly collaborate in building a peaceful world...
...simultaneously. Yet Northeasterners wasted little time lamenting their betrayal by the machine. Instead, with a high sense of shared adventure, they set about the unfamiliar task of using legs and arms to help themselves and their fellow men. If in the process the 20th century American learned belatedly to mistrust the complex mechanics by which he lives, he also acquired new faith in his humanity...
...armed force. The question now is how much moral suasion can be brought to bear on a dispute between Pakistan's Moslems and India's Hindus-peoples whose antagonisms, like so many of Asia's enmities (TIME Essay, April 9), are rooted in centuries of mistrust...