Word: mistrustfulness
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...destruction of warheads, launchers and support facilities. At hundreds of locations in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, camouflage will be lifted to uncover weapons sites for American spy satellites. Similar arrangements will apply to U.S. and West European facilities. Such innovative measures are designed to head off the mistrust that undermined the SALT II treaty. Secretary of State George Shultz said last week that the new system "gives us a very comfortable feeling that in the end the provisions of the treaty can be verified and will be carried...
...main reason for this odd and often frustrating approach probably lies in Miller's view of his masterwork, Death of a Salesman. Although what lingers with many spectators is the play's powerful naturalistic evocation of family mistrust and disappointment, Miller emphasizes its nonrealistic side, the scenes of recollection and hallucination taking place in the haunted mind of its title character. His goal when creating Salesman, he says, was to "cut through time like a knife through a layer cake or a road through a mountain revealing its geologic layers, and instead of one incident in one time-frame succeeding...
...Mistrust...
Those groups working to naturalize illegal aliens said that one of the reason for a mistrust of the new law was the initial interpretation that anyone who left the U.S. after 1982 could not return with amnesty. Immigrant aid groups have said that this method of enforcing the law broke up many families...
...against the self-congratulatory individualism of the Reagan era. But with or without allusive implications, the story jolts its passive characters -- and spectators -- into a world where every action has its moral consequences. The royal family proves unheroic and useless in a crisis. Neighborliness among the peasants turns to mistrust in a brilliant song of mutual finger pointing, Your Fault. Several characters die brutally in the grasp of the giantess or at the hands of panicky fellow citizens. Yet what comes out of this chaos is not the jollity of happy endings but a deeper reassurance, born of tolerance...