Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religion-in-General. The loss of so-called absolutes is not the problem. "It is rather the disappearance of trust in the proposition that the mind and conscience are capable of making any genuine discriminations at all." Nor, as Dr. Miller sees it, is anti-intellectualism at the heart of the matter. "It is not that we do not have enough respect for other people called intellectuals; it is that we do not have enough respect for our own intellects...
Cabell employed none of the novelist's devices considered important today--stream of consciousness, rendition, authority, and "psychological mechanism." He used the older tools of clear writing, myth, and allegory. He was a pessimist not quite prepared to trust reality, doubtful of "justice" in the universe, and inclined to believe that the discovery of cosmic chaos was not a triumph for man. It only sustained the defeat. But Cabell didn't let things go at anticipating Sartre and the Left Bank anti-ontologists. He did believe in wit and beauty, and symbolistic meaning. Images in Jurgen arise from both...
...downturn, and by last week signs of upturn were visible (see BUSINESS) even through grey-colored glasses. With his predictions and counsel proved sound, Gabriel Hauge, 44, made a decision to return to private life. His new job: finance committee chairman of New York's Manufacturers Trust Co., fourth largest U.S. bank (after California's Bank of America, New York's Chase Manhattan and First National City...
Rumbled Superior Court Judge Arnold Praeger, in ruling on two taxpayer suits: "This is an illegal delegation of the duty of the city council, an abdication of its public trust and a manifest gross abuse of discretion." Pending an appeal, O'Malley stayed mum on renewal of his Coliseum lease (which expires next year), observed plaintively that "our timetable is completely out the window...
...Tishman covers the whole spectrum of real estate, from buying and building to renting and managing. The company specializes in opening up new areas of cities, is often followed by other firms once it builds. "If you get there first," says Tishman, "you find remarkably little competition. I first trust my instincts to pick the sites, then take a thorough economic survey. If the survey bears out my instincts, we go ahead. If not, I stick with the survey and forget my instincts. This is no business for guesswork...