Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College has been proved again. The specter of forcing an election into the Congress is mild if compared with the crisis we would face in a close election based on popular vote. Recounts, absentee ballots, and other less legitimate vote juggling in close precincts would keep an election in doubt for months. The Electoral College isn't perfect, but it's usually decisive. And if it fails, I'd rather trust Congress than Cook County...
...last met scarcely five months ago, it hardly seemed worth the trip to Iceland. As Secretary-General Manlio Brosio recalled before the ministers gathered last week in NATO's bleak new heaquarters outside Brussels: "Hopes for détente were so high that they tended to put in doubt the very necessity of a common alliance." That was not the mood in Brussels. In the interim between the semiannual sessions, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia had shattered all illusions of an imminent accommodation with the Russians. Gone were the pleasant prospects of further military cutbacks in the budgets...
Lost in the Funhouse consists of facile, stylistic games. There is no doubt that Barth has an excellent command of the language, but his skill is misdirected, or, more accurately, not directed at all. The stories "Title," "Life-Story," and, in different ways, "Anonymiad," "Lost in the Funhouse," and "Autobiography" are stories about men writing stories. Indeed, in "Life-Story" the man in the story is writing a story about a man writing a story and so on. The novelty of the idea is quickly exhausted; Borges could have summarized it in a single line...
...Bach Society Orchestra's programming of two of the Opus 6 concerto grossi was a welcome step into the edifice of Handel's creations. The set of twelve concertos comprise the finest English instrumental music written until this century. There can be no doubt that Handel, although born in Saxony and raised on Italian opera, is a thoroughly English composer. He arrived in London during the interregnum left by the death of Purcell in 1695 and the first works of Thomas Arne twenty years later. By 1710 Handel had subsumed into his Italianate idiom the brilliant scoring, deep love...
According to taste, Tillie's matrimonial ordeal in Witch's Milk will seem touching, crazily unconvincing, or hopelessly sentimental. But read back to back with The Cat's Pajamas, it removes all doubt about De Vries' allegiance to domestic commitment, however grotesque. In Hank Tattersall's swinging world, everything is possible, therefore nothing is binding. Like Pete Seltzer, Hank, too, talks about outrageous products. But he does so only in ironic mockery of himself and the commercial world. By contrast, Seltzer's crazy products are mainly dreamed up as a kind of cheerful game...