Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Familiar Figures. The very next day, while newspaper headlines bannered the deal that would save New York, it turned out that prayer would not suffice. The banks-notably Chase Manhattan, First National City and Morgan Guaranty Trust-which were being asked for new loans, took another look at the familiar figures in the budget and the familiar figures administering them and sadly shook their heads. With that, the solution so happily announced at the Waldorf collapsed...
...increase. And Davis deserves much of the credit. An admirer of Sir Robert Peel, who founded Britain's nonviolent and respected police system, Davis follows the British practice of running a strong community-relations program. He gets his cops into living rooms to talk crime prevention and build trust. "It's working," says City Councilman Bob Farrell, a black who represents part of the crime-ridden south-central section of the city...
...widespread doubt about the country itself-its political structure, its place in the world, its present drift-that most mocks the "Smile" buttons. The matter with our times is not so much a question of impossibilities but of complexities that can be faced if only public trust and will are restored...
Edith dissolved her marriage to Teddy after he took $50,000 from her trust fund to support a mistress in Boston. After World War I, during which she led a major effort to house and feed French and Belgian refugees, she divided her time between an estate north of Paris and a villa on the Riviera. Much of her later work was little better than contemporary soap opera, written by formula to keep her expensive life-style going. But the best of it, like The Age of Innocence, returned to the once despised world of her childhood, which she dissected...
...might say that a successful drama of manners cannot be located in a highly mobile society. But that is probably overinterpreting the failure of Beacon Hill. More likely it is just a case of commercial television once again to trust the intelligence of its audience...