Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disillusion in this situation sets in quickly, and the turnover on the executive committee, the club's ruling body, is extremely high. Among those members who remain, too, are those who privately express doubt that the organization will ever be able to justify its existence by doing more than what one calls "diddley work"--stuffing envelopes, writing letters, lending the Harvard name to worthy causes. (And worthy causes, members point out, are at their weakest position in several years as ways of attracting either commitment or attention.) Only about one-third as many people filled out Civil Rights Coordinating Committee...
...fundamental conflict between regimes founded on repression and societies that aspire to liberty under law. The primary protagonists in the Cold War decades have been Communism and democracy; more immediately, they are Communist China and the U.S. And while there have recently been some loud expressions of doubt and counseling of weakness on the free world's side, there were scattered signs last week that the struggle may be going better than most Westerners had dared to hope...
...first there was some doubt she would make it there at all. But then the stout Boy Scout commissioner and five other loyal subjects on the tiny British West Indian isle of Nevis pleaded that Queen Elizabeth II not ignore them on her month-long Caribbean tour. And so she came. As the royal yacht Britannia docked at the jetty, nearly all 13,000 Nevisians were dancing in the streets. Then with endless royal waves, Elizabeth and Prince Philip drove off through the cotton and sugarcane fields to pay a gracious call at the birthplace of one of the Crown...
...doubt the lassitude that overhung much of the show last night was temporary and correctible. Actors can be encouraged to deliver their lines with more conviction, members of the chorus told to feign interest in what they're singing, light and curtain cues picked up, the entire show made faster, snappier. The audience last night wasn't the sort that can energize a cast; it had, after all, passed up both "a tragedy of sex" and an original play for adults only in order to see a 20-year-old musical comedy...
...outcome was ever in doubt, it was only for the first 86 seconds. At that point, the brand new all-Canadian line put in the Crimson's first goal...