Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Choice." Martin concludes: "I have no doubt whatsoever that there was a real danger of a Communist takeover. Given the circumstances that existed at the time, President Johnson had no choice but to send the troops." If he had not, the Castroites, in all probability, "would have spread the rebellion throughout the republic and in the end established a Communist-dominated government." If only in the context of domestic American politics, no Administration could have risked the establishment of yet another Cuba-style regime in the Caribbean...
...that situation is no more startling than its parallel paradox: the casting of doubt on such formidable Christian doctrines as Original Sin and the Virgin Birth, on the Trinity and the Resurrection, has made many men consider - or reconsider - them not with scorn but with respect, not with contempt but with intellectual curiosity...
...generally unhappy about high food prices (see U.S. BUSINESS); businessmen and farmers are restive over tight money; many voters remain vaguely uneasy over the course of the Viet Nam war. Yet none of these attitudes by itself portends a great national shift of votes. While inflation is no doubt a factor in some contests, it has been defused, at least partially by the prevalence of high wages and prosperity...
When the Loeb was first being planned, Chapman wanted it to house professional companies for at least a part of every season; this year, for the first time, two pro troupes will play there. And it will no doubt be a relief for him to hear polished sounds coming from the stage. For if he has given up the professional theatre as a vocation ("I don't have the theatrical temperament," he explains), he has retained the standards it once demanded...
...Self-Doubt & Hatred. Young Robbie Frost was a spoiled brat almost from the day he was born in San Francisco in 1874. His father was a hard-drinking, Harvard-educated journalist who beat Rob often. His mother indulged the boy, taught him to love poetry and nature; she was a devout Swedenborgian who believed that she had religious visions. It was her influence, says Thompson, that encouraged Robbie and his sister Jeanie to withdraw into a private world as children...