Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognition. The Literary Guild also reached abroad, in a departure from its routine menu, to give its 900,000 members Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day. Long considered one of the world's fine stylists, Miss Bowen was at her best in this study of tenuous human relationships in wartime Britain. To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Gary's fourth novel to be published in the U.S., was a knowing, good-humored look at 20th Century British manners & morals seen through the eyes of an old Victorian individualist. England's shyest novelist...
...this grating contradiction-and evident flashes of German insolence-might prove to be less important than the fact that the Communists had not been able to prevent the beginnings, however tenuous, of democracy in Germany. "I hope you'll pardon us for a lot of this talk," one German politician recently told an American official, "but in political campaigns such talk is quite necessary, nicht...
Last week, NBC (which had lost almost all of its comedy line-up to raiding CBS) launched a female counterattack with The Ethel Merman Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). The program's tenuous story line has dark, bouncy, 41-year-old Ethel Merman, ably assisted by ex-Juvenile Star Leon Janney, trying to sell a new revue to a somnolent backer-Homer Tubbs, the Syracuse floor-mop king...
This clears up the question of guilt. Responsibility, however, is an other matter, and the fact that last spring's YRC leaders helped to get Fisher, as a Young Republican, into NSA, places some of the responsibility on the Club. This point is not so tenuous as it may seem. Fisher is conspicuously unsophisticated when it comes to politics--this is an other of the points that became clear last night--and the YRC must have known that in an important position, he might become subject to curious influences. Yet the YRC informed all its members that Fisher would...
...guilty of a graceless and self-righteous legalism, lacking in charity toward those who have been worsted by the tumult of their own passions. There is nothing in the present situation to encourage complacency among those of us who call ourselves Christian. Yet we do have at least a tenuous hold upon a dimension of existence which is not touched in this Report . . . The modern naturalism which seeks to solve the problems of man's sexual life by treating him as an animal, only slightly more complex than other brutes, represents a therapy which implies a disease...