Word: tenuousness
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...vulnerable face of "serious" poetry everywhere. American literature at its most libertine spoke, ruthlessly mocking the discipline and care of poetry along with the paralyzing limitations that have admittedly been placed upon it. The line between space and sloppiness, like the one between innovativeness and perversity, grew tenuous. With Brautigan, things were looking grim for those of us who were counting on salvation in looseness and space...
...Gordon Allport, and others): an integrated, general theory of human social behavior. But the theory never developed sufficiently to gain pre-eminence in intellectual circles. The Social Relations Department at Harvard, though it has produced notable scientific developments and some fine social scientists, has remained a unique and rather tenuous amalgam. And at one time or another, senior faculty members in each of the component disciplines have wanted...
Bean will lug Apollo 12's Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to a site up to 1,000 ft. from Intrepid. There the two astronauts will spend an hour setting up five elaborate devices that will test the moon's tenuous atmosphere, measure magnetic fields and also study particles from...
NORMAN MAILER: THE COUNTDOWN by Donald L. Kaufmann. 190 pages. Southern Illinois University. $4.95; THE STRUCTURED VISION OF NORMAN MAILER by Barry H. Leeds. 270 pages. New York University. $6.95. Two assistant professors of English establish tenuous positions on the perpetual beachhead that is the imagination of Norman Mailer. Leeds waits anxiously for the Big Novel. Kaufmann, by contrast, wonders whether Mailer's methods will-or even should -catch up with his protean intellect...
THOSE who agree with everything up to this point will say that the chief activities of the Center could move easily from Cambridge to the Pentagon. That is a good argument. I will even help refute the tenuous reasons that the Center finds for remaining at Harvard. They say that they need the library, the faculty colleagues, the intellectual community, and the money. All of that is doubtful...