Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found your Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing" [Nov. 15], most interesting. There is no doubt that in the Western world the tradition of publicly conceding defeat to a political opponent has been well established. I think Americans have reached a high point of civilization by having made this beautiful and courageous practice an important part of their way of life...
...Americans have usually seen their glasses as half full, confident that they would eventually be brimming over; others, more accustomed to want, usually see their glasses as half empty, fearful that the rest, too, will soon drain away. No longer are Americans that smugly certain-and where there is doubt there is also the impulse for change. Thanksgiving has sometimes been seen as a giant Sears catalogue of the country's virtues and material possessions. Ideally, it should be a time for review and consideration...
...mouse came up with a proposal to put a bell around the cat's neck, providing the mice with an early warning system. But with their tunnel vision, none of the assembled specialists thought to ask the most crucial question until a grey old mouse-a generalist, no doubt-rose. Who, he asked quietly, would put the bell around the cat's neck...
...Israelis and further lessening hopes of peace in the area. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol declared that "the full responsibility for this horrendous incident falls on the head of the Arab states." In the Middle East's familiar dialectic of attack and reprisal, that verdict seemed to leave in doubt only the time and place of Israel's retaliation...
ABOUT MIDWAY through Hot Millions, a friend turned to me and said, "This movie has such ugly men." She's probably right--Peter Ustinov, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart and Robert Morley no doubt are ugly by most people's standards--and that's typical of the nice moves that went into the making of Hot Millions...