Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Business leaders are rarely mentioned as possible Presidents, in part because corporate chiefs are little known by the public, in part because of the deep-rooted American suspicion of businessmen's motives. Many of our earlier Presidents (starting with George Washington) had some entrepreneurial experience, but the last out-and-out businessman who ran was Wendell Willkie in 1940. Says John T. Connor, chairman of Allied Chemical Corp. and former head of Merck & Co.: "Anyone with previous business experience becomes immediately suspect. Certain segments think that he can't make a decision in the public interest...
...pernicious, effect of Christmas is the identity crisis it can cause among kids who are not white or Anglo-Saxon or Protestant. Little black kids find themselves on the knee of a big fat white man with a bushy white beard. And little Jewish kids mut live with the suspicion, even while they are trimming a tree or opening a Christmas present, that somewhere in this story of brotherly love there's a villain, and it appears to be themselves...
Lest the movie sound rarefied, it should be added that The Magic Flute is a wonderful bit of sorcery, passionate, elegant and lighthearted. Anyone with a cultural prejudice against opera, a suspicion of its loftier excesses, will be immediately disarmed. Opera fans will be delighted. And audiences who are simply looking for a good movie will find in The Magic Flute the most beguiling offering of the year...
...growing desire to resist the national government, particularly among the young. All young men in their twenties are either serving mandatory military service, in the university or in prison. It is estimated that in the jails of San Sebastian alone there are some 800 Basques imprisoned on suspicion of being sympathetic with separatist organizations, and many have never had charges brought against them. In the single month of May, 1975, 3300 people were arrested in the provinces of Gipuzkoa and Bizkaya alone...
Clean-up efforts began, but schools and most banks did not reopen, and most civil servants ignored Premier Karami's order to return to work. One suspicion was that the lull was only a "paycheck truce" during which the soldiers of the private militias involved would collect back salaries from local political bosses or other employers, get food for their families and rebuild their own supply of arms and ammunition...