Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young tutors interested in History and Lit find the avenue for advancement there at best uncertain, and hence devote most of their time to a department. As a result, History and Lit is populated by a part-time, transient staff that is too large for a cohesive discipline...
...that was in the more orderly past, when undergraduates, rushing without direction in their uncertain world, at least had The Time to remind them to hurry up, or slow down, or go back to bed, for it was too late anyway...
With an expressive off-Broadway arena-staging by José Quintero, The Quare Fellow is sprawlingly uncertain in design and graphically unflinching in detail. As an in-the-dock record, with capital punishment on trial, it avoids being strident but is only fitfully trenchant. Where it comes off well is as a tragedy of manners-of convicts outraged that a condemned man has not saved his cigarette butts, betting their Sunday bacon on whether the quare fellow will hang, greedily rushing the guard carrying the quare fellow's last dinner, fighting in the quare fellow's grave over...
...wages of distraction make their appearance in no uncertain terms when Shimizu attempts to deal with the figure. In Wind Child, Rope Jumper and Red Mantle, the walls come tumbling down. Here are problems which cannot be sidestepped. Rope Jumper epitomizes the situation. Against a sensitively painted background Shimizu has superimposed a figure which does him no credit at all. It is coy, purposeless and arbitrary...
...year of uncertain passing, Keohane has been a reliable receiver, his interception of a stray Dartmouth pass set up the winning touchdown for the varsity's major victory of the season...