Word: dither
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...talking with the press was that we did not, and do not, represent Harvard University or any definite constituency within it. It is highly doubtful that anyone involved feels qualified to speak even for the others in this small group. We have all assumed that the right not to dither, but instead to formulate and express one's opinion carefully, in the proper context, is an important aspect of the right of free speech itself...
...freshman at the Georgetown University School of Nursing, Luci is uncertain whether she will work on for a degree after her marriage. "All I know," she says, "is that I'll go where my husband goes." Meanwhile she faces a dither of prenuptial parties and arrangements. The wedding is planned as a "family event" at Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Last week the White House announced that Luci Johnson's maid of honor will be Older Sister Lynda Bird-who, in denying rumors that she would soon marry Actor George Hamilton, was making Page...
Glints of Skill. Behind Cortázar's stubbornly obscurantist prose falls the shadow of a story. Its central figure is Oliveira, one of a group of frayed Left Bank intellectuals who read Carson McCullers, play old Coleman Hawkins records and dither boozily about reality. Oliveira is a man suffering from "world-ache" and Baudelairean tastes; the two go together. He is later seen in Buenos Aires, where he has gone either to look for La Maga, whom he has lost, or for his own identity, which he has never found. In the company of old friends, he meanders...
...later, Billie Jean dispatched Fellow Californian Carole Caldwell 7-5, 6-3, and advanced into the fourth round, where she soundly trounced Austria's best, Sonja Pachta 6-1, 6-2. Billie Jean might not win another match, but she would leave staid old Wimbledon in a lovely dither. Never before in the 79-year history of the tournament had the No. 1-seeded woman been defeated in the first match...
...TEMPTATION or DR. ANTONIO (Fellini ) thumbs the well-worn psychological text that outward prudishness masks inward prurience. Prim, black-suited Dr. Antonio (Peppino de Filippo) is a self-constituted one-man vice squad who sees signs of obscenity everywhere. One sign that puts him into a puritanical dither is a huge billboard featuring a slinkily gowned, reclining platinum blonde who holds a mammoth glass of milk in her hand and endorses the consumption of that beverage. "Take her down," says Dr. Antonio to snickering city officials and discreet church fathers. One night, as Dr. Antonio tramps obsessively around the sign...