Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berkeley students, many of somewhat questionable academic ability and uncertain ambitions, face from the very beginning of their college careers an implicitly hostile environment. Confronted by a splintered student body, many students are forced more deeply into whatever group affiliations they can salvage...
...Masters Uncertain...
Most of the Masters seemed uncertain about the basic objections on which the committee acted. Said Master Owen, "the problem is still in an ambiguous state; there is a need for more discussion...
...After 16 uncertain months of courting the Europeans, the end of the affair came almost as a relief to the British. "At least, now we know where we stand," said many Londoners, and the Economist was moved to caution its countrymen against "pretending, as we sentimentally do, that Dunkirks (and the Brussels banishment is no less) are good...
With Hemingway and Faulkner dead, this is not a time of giants. The public is too easily preoccupied with giantism-an understandable result both of the publishers' belief that bestsellers sell best, and of the wistful ache of uncertain readers to be in the mode. But literature has never been a procession of giants. Nor do they arise, like occasional Poseidons, from a featureless sea. Rather, they form part of a moving and sustaining stream of literature, which is and must be fed by tributaries. Minor writers are needed to produce major ones...