Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon's foreign policy plank is even more passive. What the Vice-President wishes to do--although it is somewhat uncertain what he means by the phrase--is to stand firm, and in doing so to liberate Eastern Europe and Communist South-east Asia. How he plans to do this--by being rude to the Russians, by being nice to them, or simply by aiming rockets at them whenever they behave badly--he gives no indication. The entire plank, in fact, when it is not hoping for a glorious future and deploring the recognition of Red China, is celebrating...
...present version was fitted together from pieces of several prints discovered after a long search of Europe. It is unquestionably an antique, with scratchy sound, uncertain lighting and a mannered kind of acting carried over from the silent films.. But it is not the sort of antique that must be watched with embarrassment. Lotte Lenya, as Jennie, is gawkily charming, and such Kurt Weill-Bert Brecht songs as Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny retain their peculiar combination of sentiment and cynicism, even when filtered through English subtitles. Viewers who have seen the English stage version that has played...
...stage under an enormous shed, the Passion Play strikes many in its audience as deeply moving, but to even more it seems a cumbersome who-done-it that turns eventually into a hope opera. Will the Sanhedrin succeed in its plot against the Nazarene? The outcome actually seems uncertain most of the time. Despite occasional effective scenes-such as Christ's Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem-the scenario is often less lively than the begat-begat-begat chapters of Genesis. "Living tableaux" of scenes from the Old Testament contribute little but an impression of so many Bavarian countryfolk assembling...
...Pete Seeger, 41, quit Harvard to study folk music, has since cut some 50 albums that have made him the hero of the col lege folk revival. Seeger's voice is twangy and his pitch uncertain, but he sings with unequaled verve and a kind of rough-hewn sense of conviction. An ardent leftwinger, he once sang many industrial songs, now is better known for Appalachian mountain songs (Pretty Polly) and Negro classics like I'm on My Way and Takes a Worried...
...Democratic program of Franklin Roosevelt (and Harry Truman) that it cost the party at least 3,000,000 votes. Before the convention in 1956, Truman goes on, "I tried as gently as I could, to tell this man-so gifted in speech and intellect, and yet apparently so uncertain of himself and remote from people-that he had to learn how to communicate with the man in the street. I felt that I had failed. I realized more than ever . . . that his indecisiveness, unless overcome, would make him ineffectual as a President...