Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vital Part. Berlin and West Germany are inextricably tied together. The more that Khrushchev succeeds in implanting the idea of a permanently divided Germany, the more tenuous will become the position of West Berlin-as a "showcase" of democracy, as a bastion of freedom, as a city that can live. And the more desperate and uncertain the future of West Berlin, the more ominous the outlook for West Germany...
...settled elsewhere, to enroll at other universities. Not everyone lives in range of Columbia or Chicago, or of Stanford or Chariottesville, but there are many colleges and universities in the country which offer opportunity for learningBut how them could Harvard award a degree? Perhaps by large extension of the tenuous recipre- city by which transfer student are now accredited. Or perhaps we would eventually do away with the degree. But how, if we did that, would the professional and business worlds assess the qualifications of our students? They might develop ways, such as we have too seldom uses for earnest...
Chief worry is not the eleven states of the federation itself, but the neighboring autonomous state of Singapore, where Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew struggles to keep tenuous control over a noisy leftist opposition. To reinforce his moderates and keep Singapore out of the hands of the leftists, Lee has long sought to merge Singapore with stable Malaya. Until recently, Abdul Rahman has been wary, since the admission of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese (it has only 230,000 Malays) would overturn the present Malay majority within the federation. Abdul Rahman's long-range solution...
...delightful music that almost compensated for 81 minutes of unrelievedly boring talk. Nevertheless, Thames talked itself to death, closed shortly after its premiere in Vienna in 1774. In last week's revival, Conductor Joseph Keilberth and a fine singing cast demonstrated again that although Thames may have a tenuous right to hold the stage, its music has a legitimate claim to the affection of all loyal Mozartians...
...elsewhere, to enroll at other universities. Not everyone lives in range of Columbia or Chicago, or of Stanford or Charlottesville, but there are many colleges and universities in the country which offer opportunity for learning. But how then could Harvard award a degree? Perhaps by large extension of the tenuous reciprocity by which transfer students are now accredited. Or perhaps we would eventually do away with the degree. But how, if we did that, would the professional and business worlds assess the qualifications of our students? They might develop ways, such as we have too seldom seen, for earnest evaluation...