Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort-at least on the ground. Military land action decreased 20% last week, largely because many Vietnamese units were either transferred from field positions to watch-and-patrol duty in the restless cities or preferred not to launch any new attacks while the situation in Saigon was uncertain...
...other and older countries, tradition is the visible testament to established order; referring to the matches between amateur and professional cricketers, the British still speak of The Gentlemen and The Players. Sometimes tradition is a means of reassurance in an uncertain world; "Do not introduce innovations," warns a Taoist maxim. Tradition ranges from philosophy to fashion, from faith to manners, from the highest regions of polity to the humdrum level of a city sidewalk. (Will the last woman who saw the last man tip the last hat please stand up?) At least on the surface of U.S. life today...
...even though the play enters around a celebration for the son, the son, the true central character is Aunt Emily, cutting pictures from magazines, dictating taped letters to Tom, feigning deafness. And with Fran Ansley, the role assumes an even greater dimension. The wispy hair, the uncertain movements, the soft voice all register with the audience as perfect. While the action downstairs often approaches gag situations, and the action in Tom's room (like the embarrassing scene with girlfriend Ellen) is often tiresome, Aunt Emily and her world come across as real and sympathetic. When she and Tom come together...
...cast a deepening shadow across 130 years and a thousand writers. It is as if this young, 19th century German with a mind like burning phosphorus and a heart like an open grave had had an apocalyptic dramatic vision of the 20th century, with its human holocausts, scientific arrogance, uncertain values, private hysteria and despair. Out of this vision, he made a sketchbook of hell-a melancholy intuition, perhaps, of the death that was already seeping through his own veins to claim him at 23. The appeal to self-pitying modern men is that Buechner was the first playwright...
Many of the theologians attempting to work out a new doctrine of God admit that they are uncertain as to the impact of their ultimate findings on other Christian truths; but they agree that such God-related issues as personal salvation in the afterlife and immortality will need considerable re-study. But Christian history allows the possibility of development in doctrine, and even an admission of ignorance in the face of the divine mystery is part of tradition. St. Thomas Aquinas declared that "we cannot know what God is, but rather what...