Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen from Beirut, Suq al Gharb and Aytat look like a single town strung across a ridge rising 2,900 feet above the capital's southern suburbs. Yet lines of trenches mark the boundaries between the two villages, and the residents are divided by chasms of suspicion and bitterness. "They are terrified of us, and we are terrified of them," Nassar says. "We are so afraid of each other that it will be difficult for us to be friends again...
...attracting metropolitan immigrants to places like Harvard, Ill., and Saugus, Calif., where the price is right, the pace is easy and the commute to work adventurous but tolerable. But native ruburbanites, who believe that they are insulated from the excesses and evils of the larger world, view with ingrained suspicion the invasion of aging Volvos, Cuisinarts and the owners who accompany them. The bittersweet confrontations between natives and newcomers across the vanishing cultural chasm of ruburbia are turning some traditional American beliefs inside out. To a nation founded on waves of migration, ruburbia is an inevitable ripple...
...Three Blind Mice confirmed my suspicion that the ideologies and theories learned in college are of imperceptible value in dealing with people; and that formal education fails to prepare students to adjusty to day-to-day life. Rather, it becomes a programmatic attempt to help young people understand human actions after the fact. The classroom situation imposes certain restrictions (limited range of readings, limited time, one teacher's point of view) on the learning experience that are necessary to prevent chaos. In the end it is simply too safe and standardized an environment to teach a person about living...
...back. "The figure of Margaret Thatcher towers over the Falklands drama from its inception to the euphoria of the final triumph," they conclude. "Her single-mindedness, even her arch phraseology ('Defeat-I do not recognize the meaning of the word!'), all seemed to armor her against any suspicion that this might be a dangerous, even absurd, adventure...
...State Alexander Haig struck just the wrong note with his tough talk about "going to the source." He meant Cuba. He seemed to be suggesting that if the U.S. could just clobber Fidel Castro, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua would behave, or better yet, go away. He also inadvertently aroused suspicion that he was blind to indigenous sources of turmoil, such as poverty and social injustice...