Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kinship with Adlai, Kentucky's back-pounding Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, darkest Democratic horse now visible at all, also clomped into the consanguinity act with a hoarse declaration of Stevensonian blood in his wife's veins.* Happy's claim was as undocumented as it was tenuous-but it gave Adlai Stevenson, if elected, a perfect out to bar Happy from his Cabinet on the pretext of no nepotic appointments. As matters stood, all that Candidate Stevenson had to say to Candidate Chandler about their family ties was: "I'm impressed...
This is the third U.S.-published novel, touching, well-written and yet tenuous, in which 38-year-old Author Böll (Acquainted with the Night; Adam, Where Art Thou?) has feelingly symbolized a guilty Germany doing penance for its sins through suffering and death. But both author and characters seem to be locked in a permanent decontamination chamber of the soul, having still to learn that the ultimate bill of health is to be able to forgive one's self...
Victor Ziskin '59 played his On the Border of Israel, which is in reality a piano sonata in three movements, entitled "Birth," "Recollection," and "Work." Ziskin showed a definite flair for idiomatic piano virtuosity, but drew too heavily on Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. The connection with Israel seemed rather tenuous, except for a few Jewish turns of melody, particularly in the exciting first movement. The second movement fell into a cocktail-lounge style, with slithering parallel chords in the left hand repeated ad nauseam. The finale was almost wholly a piece of Leonard Bernstein jazz, and relied too much...
...other hand, the teacher shortage makes such a position tenuous. It is hard enough to find good teachers. Inducing them to live in slums is next to impossible. The University has already made tentative efforts at providing housing for faculty and married students, and hopes to do more. Likewise, the school problem could perhaps be solved either by experimental classes operated by the School of Education, or by raising salaries enough to pay for private education...
Washerwoman & Kaiser. The Monacan succession has been fairly tenuous in recent decades. Prince Albert I (1848-1922), an oceanographer of world renown, was the first prince of Monaco to marry an American pirl, New Orleans-born Alice Heine. Albert's son by an earlier marriage, Prince Louis II, caused a dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit...