Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably overestimating the enthusiasm left for a curriculum project whose outcome is highly uncertain. There will be some stir nonetheless when a Harvard Dean stands up asking for change...
...fairness, Eliot House is supposed to be one of the most generous in its treatment of these extended visitors. My roommates and I got off to an uncertain start, though. The first of them to arrive spent the first day wandering through the suite, pulling out his hair, and moaning ominously. "Oh is there gonna be shit. Oh God, is there gonna be shit." But Shit never arrived, so there are only six of us living in two bedrooms and a minimally converted shower stall until Mather finally opens sometime, we are now told, in January...
...that happened now-as Nader must know very well-most of his projects would probably flounder. Although he has recently set up a fledgling institute in Washington to carry on his kind of work, the effort is still uncertain enough that most of its life depends on Ralph Nader's personal force. The shift from one individual crusader to wider, institutionalized reform isn't easy, but Nader knows that there's only so much one famous crusader can do. And so his Washington institute-with the lumbering title "Center for the Study of Responsive Law"-and his summer student projects...
...youth's disaffection by the admittedly arduous process of mending the social and political dislocations of the times: uncertain wars, a capricious draft system, inequitable distribution of opportunity and income, institutions too immured against necessary change. The goal probably should not be to eliminate drugs entirely, which is impossible, but to control them and diminish their allure by offering the only valid alternative?a life of challenge and fulfillment. That, as kids who have reached a mature understanding of drugs already know, can also be a turn-on, and a better...
Elsewhere in the area, the season looks, at best, uncertain...