Word: tenuousness
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...language is seldom precise and sometimes implausible. Chace writes, for example, "Justin returned to his shaving and tried to change his thoughts by applying alcohol and powder to his skin." Whether or not Justin is a solipsist, the relationship between his facial activity and his mental processes is extremely tenuous. The point is that the eye for detail is not the selective eye achieving an effect on the reader, but the indiscriminate camera throwing together instants unrelated both to each other and to any apparent overall objective. Then, too, there is the jarring alternation between the telegraphic stream of consciousness...
...issue, as opposed to no registration issue. Discussion of the issue itself is, however, difficult, since there is virtually nothing in it. There are two selections from an unpublished novel by an Advocate Pegasus three years graduated; two poems by William Alfred, whose connection with the magazine is equally tenuous; a free ad for the HDC's 100th production by Steve Aaron; a poem by Junior Jonathan Kozol, and a somewhat unusual biographical reverie by President John Ratte...
...kinship with Adlai, Kentucky's back-pounding Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, darkest Democratic horse now visible at all, also clomped into the consanguinity act with a hoarse declaration of Stevensonian blood in his wife's veins.* Happy's claim was as undocumented as it was tenuous-but it gave Adlai Stevenson, if elected, a perfect out to bar Happy from his Cabinet on the pretext of no nepotic appointments. As matters stood, all that Candidate Stevenson had to say to Candidate Chandler about their family ties was: "I'm impressed...
This is the third U.S.-published novel, touching, well-written and yet tenuous, in which 38-year-old Author Böll (Acquainted with the Night; Adam, Where Art Thou?) has feelingly symbolized a guilty Germany doing penance for its sins through suffering and death. But both author and characters seem to be locked in a permanent decontamination chamber of the soul, having still to learn that the ultimate bill of health is to be able to forgive one's self...
Victor Ziskin '59 played his On the Border of Israel, which is in reality a piano sonata in three movements, entitled "Birth," "Recollection," and "Work." Ziskin showed a definite flair for idiomatic piano virtuosity, but drew too heavily on Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. The connection with Israel seemed rather tenuous, except for a few Jewish turns of melody, particularly in the exciting first movement. The second movement fell into a cocktail-lounge style, with slithering parallel chords in the left hand repeated ad nauseam. The finale was almost wholly a piece of Leonard Bernstein jazz, and relied too much...