Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hebrew for "like unto God"). They move among people who, except for the actors, are obsessed with the dread of death and try to escape their fears through cruelty, crime, self-torture, and superstition. The object of the knight's quest is to know--not just to hope or trust, but to know--whether there is "something beyond the darkness" before he dies...
...criticized me for discharging an employee on my Eugene, Ore. farm. My employee was not discharged because he was a Republican. Neither was he discharged because he was a supporter of President Eisenhower. He was discharged because I discovered that he was not loyal to the position of trust which he occupied in my employment. [He] lived rent free in my home and was really a member of the family circle; in that relationship, he was present at many discussions within my home, both political and otherwise, that involved matters of confidence and privileged information. I am very sad about...
...large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? ... It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them...
...full of soaring, vaguely leftist hopes for Cuba's future but has no clear program. Other Latin American leaders trust his democratic professions, hope that his shortcomings will not bring on disorder and another dictatorship...
...large to get the benefit of these resources--if it is not completed now by the Roosevelt administration, must eventually be carried through. But, in the meantime, one feels this spring that if Roosevelt's movement forward should suddenly go into reverse, the whole of the nesting brain trust might be swept out of the capital overnight, leaving not an idea behind...