Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disillusionment. Russell is more open and precise about his geographical travels than he is about his personal travails. He devotes much space to his trips to post-revolutionary Russia in 1920 and his disillusionment there: "Cruelty, poverty, suspicion, persecution, formed the very air we breathed ... I felt that everything that I valued in human life was being destroyed in the interests of a glib and narrow philosophy." Of his stay in prerevolutionary China in 1920-21, he writes: "It must be said that bad government seems somewhat less disastrous in China than it would be in a European nation...
...only been facing the same problems for an average of 20 years. So now that I'm too old to be taught anything different (22), I'm stuck with the ridiculous notion that freedom to follow convictions should be granted both sides of the question, and the suspicion that maybe, somewhere, somebody over 30 knows something I don't. Shucks...
...American way of life, though, has to prove itself. Introspective and analytical, this year's graduate may buy it after all?but not without a good deal of criticism and suspicion. "People have always accepted our system without question," says Penn Senior Dennis Wilen in one of those crashing oversimplifications that ignore history. "My class will not stand for that." The questioning extends well beyond the Johnson Administration's rationale for the Viet Nam war to the inevitability of capitalism and the viability of present political systems. The graduates insist that there is a need to fight injustices at home...
More importantly, the disguising of the police can only serve to create mistrust and suspicion between people. And this cannot be justified solely by the argument that plainclothesman help to catch lawbreakers. Law enforcement must always serve the law itself, and the ultimate purpose of the law should be to promote security and cohesion between all members of society...
...over 18 who are eligible for military service into civilian defense units, 2) draft women up to age 55 into "hospital" units, 3) order persons to remain at their jobs, 4) requisition private vehicles, and 5) engage in wiretapping and interception of mail when there is a "justified" suspicion of treason...