Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most tenuous, but also the most interesting in showing how the early Steinbeck twig of romanticism was bent, is the second episode: Jody, who feels deeply the mystery of the distant California Sierras, thinks he has the answer when he watches an old Mexican going off into the mountains...
...newborn and unborn babies described in Brave New World, Novelist Aldous Huxley's sarcastic peek into a lurid future. The possibility raised in Moscow by the experiments of Professor V. V. Streltsov was that of training young Reds to become stratosphere pilots who would thrive in the tenuous upper air. have no need of oxygen from tanks...
...England's history. Second, Becket's opposition was based on a narrow class privilege, wholly at odds with progress and the general welfare. Third, there was considerable support of precedent for both sides in the conflict. The superior legality of one or the other was a matter of such tenuous interpretation that it might easily have merited a five-to-four decision in a modern Supreme Court. Impetuously, the twelfth century politicians sought to solve the conflict of reform and the existence of a strategically-placed individual by assassinating...
...will sit round yours, for friendships seem to form and develop slowly here; but somehow you will be sitting in a small group about a fire before you leave, with pipes going and a tapped keg on the window sill, following with your mind the tenuous movements of live conversation. More than anything else you can be sure of you can be sure of this, here, if you want it, there is pleasant natural education
...made few friends. His scoring for orchestra was exasperatingly derivative. The arias were few and far between, singers rarely being assigned more than four or five consecutive lines. Cimarosa's 145-year-old opéra bouffe, The Secret Marriage, had its Metropolitan premiere. It proved to be tenuous but gay, would have been gayer had singers not treated it like a period piece...