Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Charles de Gaulle vowed to resign "without delay" if Frenchmen reject his proposals in the April 27 national referendum, the polls showed an apathetic and uncertain electorate: 52% undecided or determined to abstain and the rest almost evenly divided. Last week the first poll taken after the general's ultimatum turned up results that would dismay a lesser man. A full 40% of the voters had not yet made up their minds, and the rest were still divided. Only 52% intended to vote oui for De Gaulle's program-and therefore for De Gaulle himself...
...vision of academe as it ought to be. Blossoms and youthful aspirations flower under the warming sun; the beauty of old buildings and young people complement each other in striking harmony. This year is different. TIME'S Boston Bureau Chief, Gavin Scott, offers this description of the concerned, uncertain and defiant mood of the Cambridge campus a week after the occupation of University Hall...
Coming from a Presbyterian who has been regarded as conservative and at a time when taxpayers generally are restive, the fiscal package obviously required a good deal of courage. Its future is uncertain, and mail to Springfield is running 4 to 1 against the income tax, but Ogilvie remains unmoved. "I did not run for office," he says, "to evade responsibility...
...condition of Ken O'Connell's leg injury is still uncertain. A returning letterman, O'Connell was the Crimson's staring right fielder on the southern tour and batted .250 until he was injured in the Stetson game...
...genuinely intimate love scenes, in the comic portrait of Brenda's super-athletic, subhuman brother (Michael Meyers), in the feline mother-daughter skirmishes, Director Larry Peerce (One Potato, Two Potato) has produced some rare moments of high social criticism. But he has an uncertain grasp of his vehicle, and periodically it lurches out of control. At times, Benjamin seems to be playing Dustin Hoffman's gawky second cousin rather than the acrimonious Neil of Roth's story. The film's observations of the nouveau riche Patimkins are subtle enough-until a parody of a Jewish wedding...