Word: uncertain
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Lasch's book is an attempt to describe today's Everyman as "a minimal or narcisstic self". This psychological construct is "above all, a self uncertain of its own outlines, longing either to remake the world in its own image or to merge into its environment in blissful union...
...fault was Ronstadt's. Her voice seemed small and uncertain, and she was unable to move from her strong, rock-belter's low register to her silvery high notes without shifting gears awkwardly in her uncertain middle range, where most of Mimi's singing is done. It seems doubtful that her deficiencies are readily curable. She must have known early in rehearsal that the experts had been right to say that a pop singer could not make the leap to Boheme. She might have quit then and sunk a production that depended heavily on her name. That she stayed...
...culpable as well? Their roles in creating unwanted fetuses are at least tangentially related to the demise of those fetuses, so it seems they should also be held somewhat responsible. But what if the father of an aborted fetus had tried to prevent its abortion? What if it were uncertain who the fetus's father...
Even if the President manages to establish a single negotiating strategy for his Administration, arms-control agreements will surely be elusive. Chernenko's health and his mastery of the Soviet state remain uncertain. The Kremlin may simply want to observe the forms of negotiation for propaganda purposes. "We're not there yet," concedes a White House adviser, with epic understatement. "It may take the whole second term to get there...
...Washington, Moscow and European capitals last week, the general reaction was the same, a kind of prudent hopefulness, positive but well short of jubilant. The distance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had become vast and worrisome. Even an uncertain plan to re-engage is better than hostile solitude. "The main thing is that the talks are taking place," sums up Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British Foreign Secretary. "But don't let's have any terrifically high expectations of sudden change. It's going to be a very long business. It will require...