Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospect of the overcrowded world this might bring about). Socially, the rites of death and mourning, except at those rare times when whole nations hear the muffled drums for a Churchill or a Kennedy, are growing more impersonal and grudging. Religiously, the promise of immortality has become dim and uncertain. Much of the fear and mystery that once attended death has been dispelled-but so has much of the meaning...
...David Stafford-Clark thinks that the new attitude toward death should be considered in the context of "the way the whole structure of life has changed since World War II, particularly the very different attitude toward the future which has arisen. It is a much more expectant attitude-an uncertain one, but not necessarily a more negative...
...events in World War I jolted her into a realization that she herself might wield some power for good in public affairs. To keep pace with her deeds, Director Richard Kaplan had to resort to some familiar film, but he stresses the warmer glimpses of Eleanor, speechmaking in her uncertain falsetto or literally "running, flying, dancing" through election campaigns, the Depression, the White House years and World War II until her mileage became an American legend. Upon F.D.R.'s death in 1945, she told reporters, "the story is over," then went on to achieve mature distinction...
According to Swidler, it is still uncertain whether a mechanical failure or a human error started the power drain along the network systems from Maine and Pennsylvania...
...defeated Wagner's friend Paul Screvane with their own candidate Abraham Beame. The Brooklyn organization, and with it the borough's convention votes, ready to fall into the Mayor's hands, now came more firmly under Steingut's control. When John Lindsay beat Beame, the situation became even more uncertain. At present no one can say who controls the big blocs of convention votes that will choose the next Governor...