Word: unclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour, he took the character to half a dozen psychologists for analysis, wrote his findings for the current Musical America magazine. His own theory: Boris was a hysteric and a manic-depressive whose chest-heaving and temple-pounding came as natural results. His death, the cause of which is unclear in the libretto, was almost surely due to a cerebral hemorrhage. "Of course I didn't try to make a case history out of him," says Hines. "Once I understood the motivations,! forgot about it and sang the part...
...long as our basic concepts in these respects were unclear, our military leaders could not be selective in building our military power . . . We had to be ready to fight in the Arctic and in the tropics, in Asia, in the Near East and in Europe, by sea, by land and by air, by old weapons and by new weapons...
Double Take. At week's end, with the outcome still unclear, the A.F.L. had 7,568 votes to the I.L.A.'s 9,060, with a block of 4,405 challenged ballots (an important point at issue: eligibility of men who had worked part-time on the piers) still to be processed. Obviously startled, the I.L.A. hurriedly set out to nail down a contract from their old friend, the New York Shipping Association, and threatened to strike this week if negotiations were not begun...
Manhattan-born Tom Lehrer is not sure he wants to entertain any more, anyhow. He started, for reasons that are still unclear to him, while a Harvard undergraduate, and by the time he was a graduate student (in mathematics), found he was in demand. He kept pushing his material to see just how bloodthirsty he could get and get away with it. Now he knows, and with a brief taste of Manhattan night life in his mouth, he is ready to give it up. He would rather write ditties for others to sing...
...this nationally televised and broadcast program, Ramsey, a well-known unclear physicist, will explain the University's actions in not suspending Associate Professor Wendell H, Furry. Ramsey made it clear last night, however, that he is not speaking for the University, only for himself...