Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways of filling up the days here. We have our classes, our loneliness, our complaints, we have our friends and lovers. We worry, sometimes, about these things, we worry most of the time about ourselves. We know, and do not know, we try to change, we remain uncertain. But despite the uncertainty and the ambiguity of our lives, or perhaps because of them, we dream. We call the new dreams the future, and they give us a place to go when the getting there is too much to handle. We call the old dreams memories, and they make...
CITIES and the situation of urban man are favorite themes of Auden. In 1946 he called our time "The Age of Anxiety, haunted by the horror of the atomic bomb, uncertain of the existence of a future. When asked to discuss it, he chuckled, "I wish I had parented it" But soon he became serious "Everyone is anxious about the future," he said. "I hope I shall be dead before the worst happens...
Love Festival. About 1,000 agents have been used to monitor disturbances, rallies, even high school demonstrations. One agent was on the floor of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, mission uncertain. Two Keystone Korporals were flushed out of the bushes in a Chicago park as they watched a Yippie love festival. From such activities the Army compiled reports that were circulated to base commanders and law-enforcement officials. Some of the information relayed seemed ludicrous. One item warned of impending violence on the "Day of St. Lazar," when
Because Japan is still very much a country of slowly Cemented consensus, no swift changes are in prospect. Men who are now in their 60s will rule well into the 1970s, and they are cautious and uncertain. "Today's leaders," says Kyoto University Professor Kei Waka-izuma, "resemble mountain climbers who, finding themselves
...Uncertain Future. Last week, as Denny the Dupe played hide-and-seek with creditors who are trying to evict him from his suburban Detroit home for nonpayment of seven months' rent, his future in baseball was uncertain. With interests in a paint company, an air freight service and a television-store franchise, he claims a yearly income of $200,000; included is his $90,000 Tiger salary, the checks for which are being sent to a Detroit bank to pay off an outstanding loan...