Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doubt...
Hardin kept Coach Bill McCurdy in doubt about the battle for first place long after Harvard was assured of the team prize. "Dauntless Doug" fought a see-saw struggle for 41/2miles with Yale's previously undefeated captain, Frank Shorter...
...omission is the characterization of him as "perfunctory" and "a prejudiced bore." The young people who flocked to his courses from all fields of concentration did not consider "perfunctory" the compassionate man who, 50 years ago, fought for some of the same causes now motivating the student protests. I doubt that he ever had a boring class session in his life, and, like his master Socrates, whose method of teaching he emulated, his "prejudice" was for the pursuit of truth, wherever it might lead...
...that he could govern with a clear mandate. There was probably not even a notion of what he would do should he lose; law would certainly seem dull. Just as bent on victory -and apparently convinced it is in his grasp-Humphrey would no doubt be better prepared psychologically for defeat at this juncture and would work for the next four years to unite the party...
...matters of art, Bellow focuses his highly trained and intensely moral intelligence on questions of public responsibility and the possibilities of democracy. The force that his work exerts, however, comes not from political ideology, psychology or poetics, but from a resilient curiosity that encloses a molten core of doubt. What is man? How can he best manage his intellect and instincts? Those are the questions that spur Bellow's fictional quests. He finds no satisfying answers, but his special genius for characterization has progressively narrowed the distance between man's definition of himself and what he really...