Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France weak and divided as of old (see THE WORLD). In a less concrete sense, it is disconcerting because what is happening in France can be seen as a harsh paradigm of events the world over. In many places, the familiar leaders seem challenged, the apparently certain is in doubt. What one revolutionary era called "the people," and another referred to as "the masses," are being heard from emphatically and violently...
Pollyanna Adams. Even Hubert Humphrey turned snappish. "You won't make this country better," he said, "by leading from fear, despair and doubt." If some "spilt-milk politicians," he added, in a speech prepared for a dairymen's convention in Kansas City, Mo., "would spend more time getting on with the job and less cussing out the cows-or crying crocodile tears about everything in general-we would all be better off." Indeed, if anything nettles Humphrey, it is Kennedy's implication that his "politics of joy" is frivolous and smug. "Hubert," said a sign...
...usually a toss-up from year to year whether the writing in the Yearbook is more abysmal than the pictures. This time there's no doubt. It's the writing...
Take the march on the Pentagon, which the Yearbook felt--no doubt correctly--had a profound effect on a lot of people around here. Remember the anger and frustration, the hippies stuffing flowers down the gun barrels that were pointed at them? The Yearbook brings it all back with some of the worst photos I have seen of the march. The only one that reveals some vague perception of the mood is an action shot that is unintelligibly blurred...
...think a lot of these doubts are shared by people in the New Left, shared by a lot of students, but I don't think these people always act on their doubts, and I'm afraid I want them to act on their doubts as well as on their political princlples. I want them to demonstrate some of the tension that goes between humility and arrogance, some of the tension that goes between idealism and pragmatism, some of the tension that goes between pride and self-doubt and a kind of inner agony...