Word: tenuousness
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...prints in his long career, the Eclogues was his first major try at book illustration. Like all lasting illustrations, his works liberate rather than confine the imagination of the reader. He presents no bluntly defined scenes but bathes the pages in storms, mists and sunny fields of color. His tenuous drawing comes through the color only by degrees; then it whispers convincingly of the lofty world and divine forms that Virgil more robustly describes. Whether Villon is picturing the morning sun or a fertile valley at evening (opposite), he excites the observer's memory and imagination to fill...
...West, then, seems to be in a fairly good immediate position but in a very tenuous one in the long run. At the moment, with Adenauer's government violently against neutralization, we can reject with impunity any Russian proposal for reunification on that basis. But such a negative policy is not enough. It would be far better to go to the conference with a positive proposal for reunification on the basis of free alliance, which the Russians would refuse. This at least would put the Russians would refuse. This at least would put the Russians, not the West...
Nearly every industry, of course, can claim some wartime usefulness, no matter how tenuous the thread connecting it with military production. After the President had approved the demands of American watch-makers for increased tariffs, last year, even fertilizer and gut-string factories filed clever rationalizations for protection...
...many of these subscribers have long since dissolved their ties with the University. Their affiliation with the "Harvard family" is tenuous when compared to that of any student. To make the B.S.O. Sanders tradition meaningful, therefore, the Administration should prune from the subscribers list, people who are no longer attached to the University. It should then allot the extra seats, not to the most "eligible" persons applying for season's subscriptions, but on a "rush" basis to the first students who show up before each concert. In this way, Harvard music-lovers would have at least some chance of sharing...
...Harvard House, which stands in Stratford on-Avon, was established as a memorial to John Harvard in 1909 under letters of patent granted by King Edward VII, although in actual fact the founder's connection with the building is very tenuous...