Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeing today!" exclaimed John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club, as he gazed on Yosemite seven decades ago. Last year 2.7 million tourists went to Yosemite. One may fairly assume that most of their innumerable frames of 35-mm and Polaroid film were exposed in the hope of trapping their own Ansel Adams image, rather as tourists in 18th century Italy sometimes carried a smoked lens called a Claude Glass, through which the landscapes of the Roman Campagna could be seen in the mellow brown tone of Claude Lorrain's canvases. To that public, Adams is as American...
...These academics, still in their 30s or early 40s, admit to many more questions than answers and are sometimes unfairly dismissed by their more traditionalist colleagues as "N.C.s" (Neanderthal Conservatives). Hardly Neanderthal, they are instead moderate, pragmatic economists of the late 1970s who are bringing fresh air, and fresh hope, to the dismal science. Says Rudolph Penner, head of tax-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute: "The exciting ideas are now coming from the under-40 crowd, and they are saying that Government is not efficient...
...last major poll on racial issues, taken by Gallup in February 1978, 49% thought that nonwhites should be offered financial help to return "home," as if they were not already there. Indeed, the British seem to regard the race problem as an unfortunate accident from which they still hope to recover...
...three-page letter to the relatives of all the passengers. Extending his "sincere condolences" and detailing the insurers' plans to pay funeral expenses. Robert Alpert, vice president of the United States Aviation Underwriters, offered to settle any damage claims. Then came some pointed advice. "It is also our hope," wrote Alpert, "that you ultimately retain as much of the compensation as is properly due you without unnecessary diversion of large amounts to legal expenses." "Outrageous was the response from Lee Kreindler, 55, a highly respected New York City lawyer who is one of a small group that specializes...
...rare best, the theater possesses the uncanny ability to restore and sustain the virginity of a child's imagination. The unmarred innocence of true belief. The faith in magic and miracles. The trust that humankind issues from the hand of God in luminous purity. The hope that life will some day safely return to that hand, however manacled, tormented and casually degraded by the world's flagrantly iniquitous ways...