Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAWLS: FEELIN' GOOD (Capitol). Unlike many a soul singer, Lou Rawls leaves no doubt about what he is saying, as well as feeling. His machete-sharp enunciation is a major component of his thoroughly masculine power, and he means what he says. The album's selection of songs is felicitous, particularly the bitter My Ancestors, and the wry Hang-Ups (that manages to use nearly every cliche in the contemporary vocabulary: shook-up, with-it, uptight, hung-up and groovin...
Relax, Harvard and Radcliffe, class of 1969. The tuition rise announced in Monday's Summer News will definitely not go into effect until the fall of 1969, although the Summer News suggested there was some doubt about that...
...Secret Life. To most people, including the President no doubt, Fortas is a puzzling, enigmatic, even mysterious man. "I wouldn't be surprised," says one of his former law clerks, "if tomorrow I were to find out that Abe Fortas leads a secret life as a published poet in South America." Questioning counsel from the bench, he can be determined, abrupt, relentless in his search for the heart of a case. He can tear a poorly reasoned argument to tatters...
There is no doubt that Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is an opera about sex. But how sexy it is depends on whether the audience relies more on its eyes or its ears. While the score throbs with passion, most of the dramatic action takes place in the souls of the title characters, with very little left for the stage...
Lynd concedes that the ultimate risk of this position invites "generalized disrespect for law," but he slides away from consequences. When in doubt, he radiates an unqualified trust in the natural goodness and perfectibility of man that makes such an early wishful-thinker as Rousseau look like a cynic...