Word: trusting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essentially romantic. As Szarkowski has observed, "Adams' pictures are perhaps anachronisms. They are perhaps the last confident and deeply felt pictures of their tradition . . . It does not seem likely that a photographer of the future will be able to bring to the heroic wild landscape the passion, trust and belief that Adams has brought...
...Soundlessly as I could, I slipped down from the desk and made my way on my toes to the daybed . . . My astonishment at what I'd overheard, my shame at the unpardonable breach of his trust, my relief at having escaped undiscovered-all that turned out to be nothing, really, beside the frustration I soon began to feel over the thinness of my imagination and what that promised for the future. Dad-da, Florence, the great Durante; her babyishness and desire, his mad, heroic restraint-Oh, if only I could have imagined the scene I'd overheard...
...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...
...windows," he warned his staff who were across the street the day after Kennedy's murder. "The people in the White House will think you are looking for power." When a TV reporter offended Johnson, he told an aide, "He's a walleye. My daddy said never trust a mule or a man who is walleyed...
...core of public trust is the belief that judges are impartial. New York Lawyer Simon Rifkind, a former judge, notes: "Impartiality is an acquired taste, like olives. You have to be habituated to it." Some judges never lose the attitudes they brought to the bench; lawyers complain that judges who were prosecutors favor the state, and judges who were defense lawyers favor the defendant...