Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, broke, divided and uncertain. SCLC is still a formidable organization, determined to carry on. As one of the delegates in Dallas put it. "We're black and we're proud and we're broke, but gutsy and we'll survive...
Despite the uncertain prospects of improving its league record, Harvard certainly has as fine a team as it has enjoyed in its 41 years of competition. The glaring weaknesses of last year's squad--a lack of overall depth, a season-long problem in the backstroke and butterfly strokes and a weak diving contingent--are more carefully camouflaged this winter, and the Crimson's freestyle swimmers are as good as any in the league...
...with Lessing is that her fiction is not its own end, but a vehicle, at best, for reportage. She documents rather than transfigures a world too much with her, Like Mailer, but without his conscious purpose, Lessing belongs to that category of writers who face the future in the uncertain terms of the journalist: event-ridden, self conscious, and without a philosophy strong enough to bear the burden of past and future instead she seeks refuge in the present, a present she neither loves nor hates. With nothing so inspired as Doestoevskian contempt, she only disapproves. Lessing, with...
...most of the country wanted-or feared-with constant reminders of the old verities and only occasional flashes of innovation-so far. Even in his reform proposals, Nixon sometimes comes across only as a leaner, meaner liberal. The shortcoming is not his alone. American conservatism has long been inconstant, uncertain and divided in its aims, trying to combine belief in authority with a belief in individualism and little government. A rich tradition of conservative thought on the European model has never taken root in America; perhaps Americans are too much on the go, too future-oriented. Confronted with liberalism...
...week's end Perón's future in Argentina was uncertain. His airport reception had been a disappointment; President Lanusse had flown out of Buenos Aires to lay the cornerstone of a petrochemical plant. No one could guess how he planned to react to el Líder's return. In the next week Perón will meet with representatives of the Justicialismo movement, as well as with those of Argentina's other political parties. Taunted and shunned as he was by Lanusse, Perón seemed to be asking instead of demanding that...