Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intriguing story of a man at odds with his culture and his deepest beliefs. And it is all the more interesting because Father Thomas O'Neill is not just a little bit like Ireland itself: religious but unwilling to be stereotyped as such, bothered about his past, uncertain of his future, and unwilling to make the final wager in blood to achieve what he has been told all his life he must do, O'Neill is very much the typical Irishman of the modern era. In that sense, it borders on the tragic that Reid...
...Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality shows. The journal sent questionnaires to 10,000 members of the A.P.A., and compiled the first 2,500 responses. Of those answering, 69% said they believed "homosexuality is usually a pathological adaptation, as opposed to a normal variation," 18% disagreed and 13% were uncertain. Similarly, sizable majorities said that homosexuals are generally less happy than heterosexuals (73%) and less capable of mature, loving relationships (60%). A total of 70% said homosexuals' problems have more to do with their own inner conflicts than with stigmatization by society at large. Many of the doctors doubted that...
...only ten years ago was a splinter group on the fringe of provincial politics. Independence for Quebec is the party's main goal?indeed, its raison d'être. Some time next year the government is expected to hold a province-wide referendum. How the issue will be worded is uncertain, but in essence the voters of Quebec will be asked in a plebiscite whether or not their province should take the first steps toward becoming a new, independent North American nation. If Quebec does eventually secede, Canada's already impoverished Atlantic Provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward...
...these divergent strains and spiky attitudes have assigned Joel uncertain territory between rock and pop and have tended to keep most big-league rock critics at a distance from his work. "I don't need that." he comments, street kid's swagger still intact. "Long, learned reviews are just hard to read...
...chairman of the School Committee, which is divided three to three between independents and members of the Cambridge Convention slate. It is still unclear as to what the committee's major issues and voting coalitions will be and so the impact of Danehy, Roman Hruska's ideological twin, remains uncertain...