Word: unclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate, Nehru, his face grim, read off an hour-long speech which he had carefully written and rewritten the day before. By the time he was half through, his opponents knew that their attack had been parried in advance. Abandoning his previous assertions that the Hungarian affair was "unclear," and essentially a civil war, Nehru flatly admitted: "The fact is that ... the Soviet armies were there against the wishes of the Hungarian people...
More than 27,000 refugees have fled from Hungary to Austria, and continue to stream across the frontier at a rate of a thousand a day. While the number of students included among these is still unclear, it is certain that many have forsaken their homes in order to pursue free academic inquiry. With the advent of winter, the homeless must be housed and fed--and present estimates place the cost at about six million dollars. Harvard's share of this load must be more than a token...
...courage that would let Natasha brand her flesh with a red-hot iron to prove her love. Instead of a total commitment to life, there is more often a quiet acceptance of fate. Mel Ferrer's Prince Andrey has a certain sullen grandeur, but his diction is often unclear, and he is more wooden than reserved, more testy than proud. Henry Fonda's leanness at first seems all wrong for the massive, moonfaced, soul-tortured Pierre. But Fonda builds beautifully into his part, using a physical clumsiness as a counterpoise to his soaring spirit, making his rages seem...
...John Gibson, Karen Peterson, and the composer. In the three movements of this intensely dissonant work, Rzewski arrives at some very unusual instrumentations. The piece is difficult to understand after only one hearing, but there is always activity, the music is always going somewhere, even when the direction is unclear. In spirit, if not to the note, the trio is a twelve-tone work, in the style of Schoenberg and his disciples. This performance was not altogether successful. Rzewski was too heavy-handed at times, and John Gibson lacked assurance. Karen Peterson, however, managed the flut part well...
...high court's recent decision is "unclear," however, Howe maintained, since it does not specify whether all state action concerning subversion is invalid. Congress may also give states future permission to pass such laws, he added...