Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watching this movie is like visiting a friend in intensive care. Terrible damage has already been done, and the prognosis for recovery is uncertain...
...opening work, Ives's "Three Places in New England," began with uncertain attacks and a messy climax in the first movement, but a rousing, properly chaotic second movement captured well the big-ban-sound of "Putnam's Camp." The third movement, "The Housatonic at Stock-bridge," which can so easily degenerate into a meaningless mess of tone clusters, was a flowing and coherent whole. The orchestra deserves great credit here for a remarkably controlled performance of the most technically difficult work on the program...
...keynote address of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, but the delegates may likely be disappointed by what he says. He will probably make few substantive commitments. On the eve of the meeting, the U.S. still did not even have a coherent food policy. It was also uncertain whether two of the world's biggest food producers and consumers-the U.S.S.R. and China-would cooperate in any international food effort, even though the urgency of the problem is unmistakable...
...enough money even for the food. Nor can they rely on aid. Though the U.S. has given away $25 billion worth of food in the past two decades, the American people will probably not support large aid programs if prices at their neighborhood supermarkets remain high. It is also uncertain whether the world has enough ships, trains and trucks to move such quantities of grain...
...emergency meeting last August, the church's House of Bishops challenged the validity of the July ordination. The four bishops who ordained the women have since been charged with violating Episcopal canon law and will probably face church trials. What disciplinary action awaits the women is uncertain. Though a majority of bishops favor ordaining women, the church cannot approve it until the 1976 general convention at the earliest. Piccard's bishop, the Rt. Rev. Philip Mc-Nairy, who wants women to be priests, notes that "Jeannette Piccard is a woman of causes. She loves a fight. She feels...