Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-Penn meet last week was going to decide Ivy supremacy, and both squads knew it. Penn. however, showed that they knew it, and in the tenuous game of "psyche," such a mistake is similar to throwing up one's hand in a poker game before one is called...
...Facts. Less than two weeks ago, it hardly seemed it would come to that. Despite the protests of organized labor and civil rights groups, Haynsworth's confirmation appeared assured. What brought about the sudden shift in Republican ranks against Haynsworth was the disclosure that he once had a tenuous business connection with Bobby Baker, the former Democratic Senate aide who was convicted of larceny and tax evasion in 1967. Both men invested in a South Carolina real estate deal several years ago, although neither apparently knew the other. Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, leader of the Senate...
...view of a great many people, of course, that protection is not enough. Critic Pierce Hannah complained in the London Times: "We, no less than the Victorians, have our current cant. Ours is to protest that books and plays with only the most tenuous claims to be taken seriously must be fought for because they contain once-taboo words and situations. We make martyrs out of third-rate writers in no danger of going to the stake." A compelling answer to this argument is that third-rate or even tenth-rate writers must be protected if first-rate writers...
...sort of tension and humor different from those in later Ford. The humor is directed at the awkwardness of persons, not at customs. The tension comes from their insecure situation, the failure of traditional behavior in a new situation. Indeed, every character's place in How Green is tenuous...
Alien Culture. The Cultural Mafia has just begun to explore the behavioral characteristics of Negro life, but its ideas have already provoked a lively professional debate. Many sociologists and anthropologists argue that the supposed correlation between the American ghetto and the African village is tenuous at best. Black Sociologist James Elsberry, assistant director of New York's Center for Urban Education, contends that the black man's distinctive cultural patterns are due not so much to his African past but to his long alienation from the hostile white American society around...