Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amis and the rest of his school part company, it will be because he is its only conscientious craftsman and its only notable wit. Even so, his humor travels no better than the average joke in Punch, and U.S. editions of Lucky Jim and a second novel. That Uncertain Feeling, have barely topped the 5,000 mark in sales. His fellow writers would probably fare even worse, for they write with a sloppy, cliche-ridden arrogance that has been absent from serious U.S. fiction since the heyday of James T. Farrell and the cult of social protest...
...must have an academy to train Mormon teachers ("I want you to remember," he told its first permanent head "that you ought not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the spirit of God. That is all. God bless you. Goodbye"), B.Y.U. has had a most uncertain career. Though it has turned out such men as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Senator Arthur Watkins and U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "nine old men"), it fell on such hard times during the Depression that some trustees wondered whether the church...
...extension of the franchise so that the outnumbered whites can maintain their dominance. Paced by the British, with the frightening memory of yesterday's Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya to spur them on, the white masters in the remaining territories of Middle Africa are plunging headlong into an uncertain future, making concessions usually a step behind the demands-and sometimes a step ahead of the capacity-of their once submissive but now impatient peoples...
...doubles Yale has shown well this season and should be expected to given a good account of themselves in that category today. The return of Tom Freiberg after being laid off for most of the season leaves the precise doubles lineup uncertain, but it seems likely that Meyer and Schoonmaker will hold down the first position, followed by Auger and possibly Freiberg at second doubles and Jones and Wiener in the third position...
...Depression only that made students of the Class of 1931 feel uncertain about the future: it was ambition also," he said last June. The present generation is in more of a hurry than its forerunners, not from ambition, but because they "have already made up their minds as to where they want to go on the superhighway of their chosen corporation or profession," he stated...