Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this the young man lost his temper. "You are exceedingly stupid," he snapped. "If you don't know what I mean, well, let us leave it at that and trust to God that nothing happens...
...Despite its title, it is not just a portrait of a hypochondriac; nor is it just another volley in Moliere's life-long campaign against Baroque medical quackery and incompetence. The main theme of the play is the struggle between fraud and stupidity--a warning against too great a trust in alleged experts and arrant professionalism. Of the two dozen or so personages in the piece, only two are natural and honest human beings. The rest are all hypocrites or bluffers. Healthy Argan pretends to be riddled with illness; his inheritance-eyeing wife Beline protests familial affection; the small daughter...
When N.Y.U. Associate Professor of English Edwin Burgum not only refused to answer questions on his alleged party membership before a Senate subcommittee but also refused to talk to a committee of his own colleagues, Heald suspended him as "unfit to continue in a position of educational trust...
...Israel until the 11th century BC The King is Saul, chosen by God, through a reluctant Samuel, to expel the Philistines and elevate Israel to "a nation among nations." Though young King Saul won peace and freedom for his countrymen, he was never able to win Samuel's trust or break the old prophet's hold upon a primitive, God-haunted people The story of the conflict between king and kingmaker, man and God, has been dimmed by divergent accounts in the Old Testament. In Shirley Watkins' novel the struggle rings out as clearly as the clash...
...well as God's; rumors of Samuel's strategy persuade Saul that he has, in fact, been rejected by God. Too late the Witch of Endor warns the king: "Your first sin against God was doubt." Hounded by the sense that he has failed God's trust, Saul loses faith in himself and those around him. Suspicion of David (who becomes a national hero with the slaying of Goliath) gnaws at Saul's soul until he is obsessed with the idea that he must either kill David or be killed by him. Even after he recognizes...