Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...region, of religion, of race, is a house that cannot stand." Yet, he con tinued, "there is division in the American house now. There is divisiveness among us all tonight." Said the President: "What we won when all of our people united just must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics among any of our people. And believing this as I do, I have concluded that I should not permit the presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. With American sons in the fields far away, with America...
...small enough price to pay in return for Suharto's broad emergency powers, but it showed a widespread doubt about the honesty of his government. With a Ford Galaxie for his official limousine and a middle-class bungalow for his residence, Suharto himself is not under suspicion. Some of his top generals, with larger houses and longer cars, most certainly are, including one group in charge of foreign rice purchases that has failed to account for millions of rupiahs. One unpleasant consequence of the government's reputation is that some overseas businessmen are holding back on investments...
Black comedy has spawned black farce. Loot is a saucy, unremittingly funny play, spewing its deftly poisoned darts at freshly dead mothers, dutiful fathers (Liam Redmond), marriage, the Roman Catholic Church, police stupidity and police brutality. It suffers, as do all "nothing sacred" plays, from the suspicion that the playwright, the late Joe Orton, was shocking no one quite so much as himself...
...time with a young U.S. movie actress. In his suicide note he wrote: "Don't gossip." But of course everyone did-and not, perhaps, simply about the unsuccessful love affair. For Pavese's complex character has left friends and critics guessing ever since. These novels prompt the suspicion that he suffered from a sense of personal inadequacy compounded by postwar disillusionment. He had a Hamlet streak in him too wide to live with...
...THOMSON: Let me suggest, as a way of answering your question, that the problem is China and the United States are squared off against each other with intense suspicion, and the problem is how to break out of the bind of mutual misapprehension...