Word: mistrustful
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...conservative mistrust of dominant cultural institutions extends from popular culture to academia. William F. Buckley Jr.'s first book was God and Man at Yale. In it Buckley posited the gradual takeover of the academy by mealy-mouthed liberals indifferent, and even hostile, to religion and the cultural importance of religion in Western culture, particularly in shaping conceptions of individual rights...
...although conservative mistrust of the news media and misgivings about the nature of the modern academy are warranted, the way in which conservatives have reacted to media bias and universities' religious indifferences...
...appalling as the carnage was, it seemed to signal something worse: a final loss of faith by black Americans in the fairness of the criminal-justice system and hence in the rule of law itself. It will be easier to clean up the rubble than to heal the mistrust and anger that caused it. (See cover stories beginning on page...
...Altman gleefully nurses some particular grudges -- against certain producers, certain executives, certain critics, Sam Shepard -- he seems free of general bitterness. Sure, he feels a little gypped out of M*A*S*H money ("I never got paid anything ((from the TV series)) -- anything"), but for all his visceral mistrust of Hollywood, he doesn't seem sour about his decade of reputation shrinkage and quasi-exile. After all, every few years he has been lucky enough to turn out something great. So what's to be bitter about? "There's not a film I've got made that...
Maybe so. Clinton already has won the surprised admiration of many pols for surviving allegations that would long since have scuttled many another campaign. Yet for the candidate and his supporters, the massive mistrust he has aroused is maddeningly difficult to counter because it stems from so many sources. It can no longer be dispelled by refuting specific charges -- not all of which are terribly important anyway. There are some indications that more voters are troubled by allegations of adultery and draft evasion than will admit it to pollsters. But youthful experimentation with pot is a proven non- issue...