Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League publicity man who unearthed these flattering statistics but Business Professor Stanley Vance of the University of Oregon, who published his results in the University of California's California Management Review. Possibly displaying a touch of West Coast chauvinism, Professor Vance found "ominous overtones" in the "mounting suspicion that our maturing industrial society is slowly but surely evolving its own distinctive elite" based in part on "the prevalence of specific school ties...
CACTUS FLOWER. French sex farces center around a door. Through it, one lover rushes. Behind it, the other lover hides. When it creaks open, it suggests suspicion. When it slams, it declares the end of the affair. In this latest Paris import, Actors Barry Nelson and Lauren Bacall and Director Abe Burrows make frequent and funny...
...facts about the physical aspects of China than have Sinologists elsewhere. But Chinese national psychology is far more important than any other factor in understanding the Chinese and other ethnic groups in Asia. China's perverted national psychology-anxiety to prove the myth of "center of the world," suspicion against the former "imperialists," and frustration at having been an underdog-cannot be easily understood or readily compensated for by those who have never had a similar experience...
...owes its present diversified strength to a basic change of policy that was begun in 1961. Traditionally disposed to regard the military with a mixture of suspicion and stinginess, the nation has slashed its forces drastically after every war. Crash mobilization was necessary for the U.S. to fight in Korea and, even after that lesson, another large reduction took place when the Eisenhower Administration enunciated the doctrine of massive retaliation. This strategy assumed that any war would quickly become a major nuclear exchange of short duration, and thus assigned big money to nuclear weaponry to the detriment of conventional forces...
...dismiss Malcolm X with such facility is to do him an injustice. His was an extraordinarily elusive personality; his volatility and suspicion of all white men combined to give him the reputation of being the "angriest Negro in America." His character demanded total commitment, and so, when introduced to Muslim teachings and to Elijah Muhammed, he devoted himself almost compulsively to the religion and its leader...