Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uncertain Surtax. Because many politicians are worried about the possibility of a recession, the President may also have trouble getting Congress to approve his proposal for a 6% surcharge on corporate and individual income taxes. Johnson argues that the added tax will not be recessionary because it will be counteracted by an increase in Social Security benefits-an average 20% if he has his way, 8% if the G.O.P. suggestion is adopted. The higher benefits, he said last week, will pump more than $4 billion into the economy, mostly through lower-income groups. Simultaneously, he added, the 6% tax will...
...decision. He has a duty to look long, learn and then judge, to like or not to like. He may make hideous mistakes. That is his risk-too few people take it-and better than abdicating personal reaction in favor of fashionable theory. For time, as today's uncertain men agree, is the only final judge; and the live viewer with his feet aching is the first voter in a poll whose results he may never know...
When Paul Taylor quit Syracuse University and hotfooted it to Manhattan 14 years ago, he was not sure of anything except that he had this terrible itch to dance. Faced with an audition before Martha Graham, he was uncertain as to whether he should leave his shoes on or go barefoot. So he compromised and danced in his socks. But once he got his feet off the ground, he quickly became the barefoot boy with cheek, choreographing numbers in which dancers simply walked across the stage like pedestrians, stood rigidly still for minutes on end, or cavorted and slithered...
Mortal Nature. He arrives at first rehearsal deliberately uncertain about his part. He stammers out his speeches, tasting them with different inflections and accents, discarding conventional readings not because they are predictable, but because they do not tally with his instinct. This is what Playwright Bolt calls Scofield's "freewheeling" period in the shakedown. Bolt no longer worries about the false starts. "He never leaves in an effect for the sake of an effect," says the playwright. "With Scofield, you are guaranteed something pure...
...must be," muses Adam Appleby as his day begins, "the life of an ordinary, non-Catholic parent, free to decide-actually to decide, in calm confidence-whether or not to have a child." But the Roman Catholic Church, to which the Applebys adhere, and the rhythm method, to whose uncertain discipline they reluctantly submit, allow no such latitude. Their first child arrived nine months after the wedding, followed, at similar intervals, by two more. And now, dabbing queasily at the breakfast bacon, Adam's wife congeals his spirit with the announcement that they may have lost another round...