Word: distrustful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decent act on the order of "the fourth alternative is to remove you by force. And none of us is prepared even to consider this"--one decent act would move all but the most hardened ideologue to reconsider his attitudes. But in the same way, further acts of distrust and rigidity, no matter what principles they embody will only serve to move the most open minded of students into the camp of the ideologues...
...administration and the faculty. If they wish they can insure that the ultimatums go on. They can insure that the students will lock themselves into angry twisted postures of defiance and hatred. The people of this university will be solidified into pressure groups, into islands of animosity and distrust, and each group will be securely fortified by walls of its own principles. We shall face each other then across unbridgeable barricades of distrust, resentment, and fear. The misplaced analysis of the university as groups of competing power blocs--an analysis that under the best circumstances need be only partially true...
...ailing franc and pound. In the process, the Germans displayed an independence-and a political muscle-unknown in the years since their defeat in 1945. Other Europeans found that display disturbing. As West German Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Willy Brandt lamented: "Old, not to say atavistic instincts of distrust were awakened in Europe...
...workers' demands for big wage increases. Those demands had been caused largely by the De Gaulle government's past policies of creating prosperity by holding down wages and skimping on social needs. In addition, France has long suffered from the tendency of many of its people to distrust their own currency, to put profit above patriotism and to have as their motto "In gold we trust." The crisis of the franc is basically a crisis of national confidence. Too many Frenchmen have been buying bullion and foreign money and transferring their savings to foreign countries in hopes...
...wrote old School Friend Cyril Connolly recently, "a political animal [who] could not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry." Though Orwell was a socialist, the metaphysical system underlying Marxian socialism meant nothing to him, and he had an empirical Englishman's distrust of other philosophical abstractions; to him, the existentialist Sartre was a windbag. But he also held an immense advantage over English intellectuals in politics who, by comparison, seem like dishonest children...