Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results of a conference solely on what gets into the transcript. Much of the constructive dialogue was undoubtedly personal and informal, over drinks or coffee. But whether this "cross-fertilization of ideas," as some IACF people were fond of calling it, justified such an immense outlay of funds is uncertain at best...
Oddly enough, the uneasy mood and the uncertain temper may in their own way be a cause for thanksgiving. With an innocent optimism that has always been a great strength, Americans have usually seen their glasses as half full, confident that they would eventually be brimming over; others, more accustomed to want, usually see their glasses as half empty, fearful that the rest, too, will soon drain away. No longer are Americans that smugly certain-and where there is doubt there is also the impulse for change. Thanksgiving has sometimes been seen as a giant Sears catalogue of the country...
...Uncertain Futures. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert C. Weaver, the first Negro to serve in the Cabinet, accepted appointment as president of Bernard M. Baruch College, a separate college of the City University of New York that is expected to be built in a Brooklyn renewal area. Secretary of State Dean Rusk may go back to a foundation job (he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation when J.F.K. named him Secretary of State). The future is uncertain for others, like Labor's Willard Wirtz and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
...tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The work attempts to formulate what Lifton calls a "psychohistorical" model of China's Cultural Revolution, the baffling internal convulsion which has kept China on the verge of anarchy since the summer of 1966. As social science, the book's contribution is uncertain. It suggests fruitful insights, but some of its observations verge on the obvious, and most are impossible to document...
...failed to sell the U.S. on the idea of material aid, he cabled his editors from Europe shortly after Hitler invaded Belgium, "it probably won't matter much what these estimable publications say in years to come"). He saw that World War II marked the end of an uncertain, isolationist period in U.S. life-he called it a shameful period-and realized that it also marked the beginning of global U.S. influence, which he welcomed in a famous LIFE editorial entitled "The American Century...