Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect this information will have on Phillips Brooks House's Project Jarba is still uncertain. Project Jarba, announced last month, is planning to send 20 to 30 student to Jordan this summer to help resettle displaced Bedouins...
...week, Héctor was literally right. In the name of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Trujillo clan ruled the island as their own and enriched themselves. After the old dictator was assassinated last May as he rode to a rendezvous with his mistress, the fiefdom fell into the uncertain hands of his son and heir, Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, who with U.S. approval was doing his best to arrange a peaceful transition. Last week, returning from exile, Uncle Hector and his brother José Arismendi, made a last desperate bid to reéssert the bloody dictatorship...
...long-term residence in Cambridge has left no uncertain traces in his verse. Freeman quotes without citation from Meleager in Greek, handles language with a scholar's weighty vocabulary that at least once ranges beyond the scope of the unabridged dictionary (favrile) but the almost never settles back upon the easy couch of cliche. His most evident fault lies elsewhere--in the directions of slickness and hyperfacility. Too often, the glitter of his words made me stop and lose sight of the whole poem while I luxuriated in a single phrase or image like "scouring chimneys' ledges' edges,/ scuffling sludge...
Renaissance artists freely mixed painting, sculpture and jewelry making, largely because they depended on patrons for a living and their patrons wanted all three. Today's painters and sculptors, free of that pressure, largely shun jewelry making, uncertain whether it is an art, a trade, or merely a manner of preserving precious stones. To combat the notion that jewelry makers are not artists but artisans, London's 800-year-old Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths this month is showing the largest recent collection of fine jewelry. For every piece from Boucheron and Cartier, Harry Winston and Tiffany, there...
David Riesman is represented by a lively article on "The Uncertain Freshman," which represents a master observer at his intuitive best. If you're having an identity crisis and you'd like some justification, Riesman's warnings against "too early closure" will serve well...