Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smaller groups of Secretaries confer on issues that cut across departmental lines, such as urban development. "I'll use the Cabinet very aggressively," he says. "I don't intend to run the departments from the White House. I'm going to have a relatively small staff, and I'll trust my Cabinet members to manage their own departments." Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, explains that Carter's organization chart does not have the White House at the top and everything else below in descending tiers...
Others question that assessment and trust "the basic discipline in the organization." No one argues that Sorensen lacks the brains to head the CIA, and even one cold-hearted professional calls him "compassionate with people," which may boost morale. But appointing a man of limited experience in the world of intelligence poses certain risks...
...Neal, Burt Reynolds as a star and Newcomer Jane Hitchcock as a comically nearsighted actress. What goes wrong with the picture is an overreliance on slapstick, the nearly lost silent film technique, as a device to evoke the spirit of the time. Bogdanovich apparently does not quite trust his film's softer side to grab interest, especially in the early going...
...perplexed by the Gospel accounts of the resurrection, but, he says, the apostles' belief that Jesus rose from the grave has transfigured subsequent civilizations. "It means a brave life, undertaken by innumerable people, without fear even in the face of fatal risks: through struggle, suffering, death, in firm trust and hope in the goal of true freedom, love, humanity, eternal life...
...compendium of doctrine, innovative and stimulating, has one problem at the core. No theologian has been more impatient than Küng with the Catholic Church's old magisterium (teaching office). Yet throughout the book Küng urges his readers, in effect, to trust the authority of a new magisterium of university scholars on what should be believed about Jesus and what should be discarded. In doing so, Küng has become the leading theologian of what could be called the Liberal Protestant party within the Roman Catholic Church. He has also provided the committees...