Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professional Mittyman, is not even burned up that Macy's offered him no role in its $50,000 spectacular, which will blaze across Manhattan's skies on the night of July 4. Instead he will set off his own twelfth annual display at Amagansett, N.Y., and trust that he won't be arrested for his pyrotechnics-as he was four years ago when he failed to get the necessary permits. "A lot of people think it's frippery, just a fire in the sky," says Plimpton, "but I love the damn things." One thing he will...
...This trust in reason is an audacious concept, and never before has a people deliberately set out to establish its political life on a principle so pure. Some argue that it is too pure a principle for fallible men. George III may be wrongheaded, they acknowledge, but the British monarchy is all that stands between the Americans and discord, disunity, and that brutish world of brutish men that the English Philosopher Thomas Hobbes envisioned more than a century ago. These skeptics dismiss as naive optimism the arguments of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau that natural man is good...
...also the possibility that reason in time will lose the religious and moral grounding it has today and turn into a mere mechanical instrument, unable to guide man through his most difficult problems. The Americans, however, may yet write a new, brighter chapter to man's story. While trusting in reason as no other men in government have before them, the representatives to Congress seem determined to hedge that trust by creating a government or governments that check one man's reason against the reason of his fellows-and to check both against the law, the collective wisdom...
...sincerely hope that the American people have drawn the right conclusions from Viet Nam and Watergate, and trust that they will soon forget those events, so as to be able to devote their talent and might to the world responsibilities that have devolved upon them in our turbulent epoch. It is my firm belief that America cannot dissociate herself from the rest of the free world...
...servant and for 34 years a director of Time Inc.; following a lengthy illness; on Long Island. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gates graduated from Yale in 1918 and was thrice decorated in World War I. In 1929, at the age of 33, he became president of New York Trust (now part of Chemical Bank). He joined Time's board in 1931, and in World War II served as an Assistant Secretary, then as Under Secretary, of the Navy...