Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darling Man. A brief period of study with Ravel in France only purified his English idiom, resulting in the moving Housman song cycle On Wenlock Edge. His rare ventures into modernist techniques left him uncertain; after the first performance of his war-troubled (1935) Symphony No. 4, he said, "I do not know whether I like it,-but it is what I meant." Several years later, after conducting it himself, he revised his opinion: "Well, gentlemen, if that's modern music, you can have...
Poorer Progeny. Much less uncertain are genetic effects. Said the report: "Exposure of gonads to even the smallest doses of ionizing radiations can give rise to mutant genes which accumulate, are transmissible to the progeny, and are considered to be, in general, harmful to the human race." Doubling the present human mutation rate would probably not lead to the race's extinction. But the scientists felt little doubt that any increase at all will lower the average of human intelligence and life expectancy...
Every pressroom has him-the unobtrusive character who is not a professional newsman but who is always around, his duties uncertain, his status undetermined, tolerated and even liked by the pros. But few can boast a more memorable character than Vo Song Thiet, a tiny, bespectacled Vietnamese who bicycled into Geneva in 1954 and has been a fixture of the Palais des Nations' pressroom ever since...
Summrrsmanship. At week's end it was uncertain when the modified summit meeting would be held, or where, or what nations would participate, or even whether any such meeting would take place at all. It all depended pretty much on Khrushchev's next note. Washington thought the U.S. could be ready before mid-August, and regular members of the Security Council were expected to discuss the procedural possibilities this week. One possibility: the heads of state and the permanent representatives-among them the delegate of Free China in the absence of Chiang Kai-shek (who made no sound...
...freed men were not nearly so carefree as some of those released earlier. They had fought off hordes of flies, had slept on the ground or in hammocks made from dirty burlap bags; more than half had dysentery from the uncertain diet. But they kept up military discipline and set their own order of release: married men first, then men with the lowest rank. As the last helicopter departed, the rebels turned their attention back to the business at hand: a rumored offensive by Dictator Fulgencio Batista...