Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paint Schlesinger as unrelievedly difficult is too harsh. His intimates say that to see him cross-legged on the floor, guitar in hand, singing his own self-mocking lyrics, is to know a different person. And there is no doubt about his capacity to analyze and understand the complex issues of energy; he is the match of any expert in the field. It is his ability to lead that is questioned...
...Samuel Beckett's work. In seven skits Kim effectively captures the essence of Beckett's purgatory-a world founded on the premise of an irreducible absurdity-one in which the realms of the shadow and substance constantly collide,interweave and fall apart. In this world characters are racked by doubt and tormented by a nightmarish past which they cannot escape or hope to understand. Purgatory is not a way-station between heaven and hell in Kim's view, it is the Universe itself, driven by doubt and unfulfilled thought...
Gilligan was never personally close to Carter, and his tenure has been in doubt for some time. His own response to such talk: "I'm not leaving until the guy kicks me out." That apparently is what Cyrus Vance did last week...
...stroke of irony that he would, no doubt, have relished, Ben Sonnenberg died last September, at age 77, during the New York newspaper strike. Thus he had no obituaries of any size, and his passing, though mourned by friends, made little news. But then, Sonnenberg's profession was to be the midwife of stories, not their subject. He was one of the first modern public relations men. Indeed he had been at the game so long-"fashioning," as he once put it, "large pedestals for small statues"-that many people thought he had invented the p.r. business...
...power of rousing phrases was recognized long before anybody knew how or why it worked. Some equivalent of "Hail to the Chief no doubt glued people to their governments from the moment tribes first formed, just as, later, did "Long live the King!" History has left a litter of slogans from all its great events, civil as well as martial-and not only political history. After Pope Urban II in 1095 called for war to recapture the Holy Land, the spontaneous outcry of listening clerics -"God wills it!"-helped fire up Christendom for the First Crusade. The translation of philosophy...