Word: tenuousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Genesis, interspersing modern-day anecdotes and events with re-enactments of chapters of the First Book. He seems to believe that the Old Testament offers an eternal guide to human psychology and the model for a vaguely cyclical interpretation of history. But the analogies he sets up are tenuous and, one suspects, carelessly thought out. The mythical and the mundane are only superficially integrated, and the serious analysis which the playwright looks to be inviting is better left untried...
Women's studies, like any not-quite-accepted area, has always occupied a rather tenuous position here. There are few enough courses taught by women, much less focused on them, and the courses on women and feminism that are offered are nearly always oversubscribed. But the recent disclosure that a Currier House seminar taught by Ruth Hubbard '45, professor of Biology, decided not to admit males raises new questions, ones that could endanger any hope of establishing serious discussion of women's issues in all traditional disciplines...
Kahn's debut piece deals with the greatest performing rhetorician in sports history, World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali. Kahn visited Ali at his training camp in the Catskills the week before the fight, and talked with him hours after he narrowly retained his title in a tenuous 15-round decision over Ken Norton. Says Kahn: The piece is a column on Ali, "the public image and the private...
...Tony Randall Show on ABC brings back The Odd Couple farceur in the role of a widowed judge in Philadelphia. The tired story line-the two motherless kids advising Dad on his sex life, an abrasive English housekeeper (played by the admirable Rachel Roberts)-is a tenuous handle for Randall...
...involved has Lebanon's civil war become after 15 months that the latest ceasefire, announced last week, is not even between Lebanese. Rather, Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization, each battling in support of opposing local forces, agreed to stop fighting. Their agreement was tenuous, especially since it very obviously favored the stronger Syrians...