Word: uncertainity
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...earlier a very promising Irish poet who, through too many years of personal anguish, had lost his touch. But Frost was anxious to talk with Clarke, and taking him aside, they spent several hours together, Clarke later said that Frost asked him what kind of verse he wrote and uncertain of the proper answer he blurted out. "I load myself with chains and try to get out of them...
...Vietnam war has created special problems for the over 2000 Vietnamese and Cambodian students attending U.S. colleges and universities. Uncertain about the conditions facing their families and relatives under the Provisional Revolutionary Government or in U.S. refugee camps, most are unsure that they will ever return home again...
...fears that a Soviet-sponsored Geneva Conference might be derided as a Soviet failure if it collapsed. Thus the U.S.S.R. is willing to let what it calls "bilateral separate deals," meaning resumption of Egyptian-Israeli talks under U.S. aegis, continue in tandem with Geneva discussions. So far Washington seems uncertain about what will emerge from President Ford's double summit-with Sadat in Salzburg and ten days later in Washington with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin...
...coachmaker: a coarse life in which he was, as he later lamented, "introduced by lechers and debauchees into the worst of company and places." One Sunday morning, suffering from a bad hangover, he blundered into a Quaker meetinghouse and shortly thereafter joined the faith. He was 23 and very uncertain...
Pinter people tend to live ineffably in the present and represent nothing out side themselves. Events have no proximate causes, let alone final Aristotelian ones. But in his last play, Old Times, Pinter's characters began to be defined by their uncertain memory of the past. Now the particulars of the present are beginning to be bounded by the dark inevitability of the future, the no man's land of death in life. The new and more abstract world that Britain's leading playwright has begun to explore at 44 is still imperfectly mapped, and he will...