Word: awkward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every main character in The Matchmaker has at least one outright soliloquy in which he steps up to the footlights and blatantly tells the audience his thoughts and motivations, and at the end each of them gives his own idea of the moral of the play. Far from being awkward, Wilder's soliloquys present humor with a timing and characterization that are charming and often hilarious. The Matchmaker is, on the whole, an ingenious interweaving of slapstick and intellectual humor...
...seen. He doubted his own results wrote a friend at the time: "I never seem to achieve anything with my blasted sculpture." He often journeyed to the Hébrard Foundry on the outskirts of Paris to pick up pointers. In his lifetime, he exhibited only one statue, an awkward ballet rat dressed in a real gauze tutu and hair ribbon. But even this and a few other waxworks caused his friend Renoir to exclaim: "Why, Degas is the greatest living sculptor." Degas was not so sure, once remarked: "To be survived by sculpture in bronze-what a responsibility! Bronze...
...match is played on a muddy field, the Crimson should duplicate the result, if not the score of the last meeting. A powerful and experienced pack of forwards will almost certainly outclass M.I.T.'s scrum. A firm dry ground, however, with the resulting emphasis on backfield play, might prove awkward if the Engineers' three-quarter line exploits the inexperience of the fast Crimson backs, who have been practicing together for only two weeks...
...awkward, left-handed student in a Kansas City dental college, Charles Dillon Stengel put in three grinding years and then discovered that dental-equipment colleges of those days catered to right-handed drill-pushers. Casey figured it would cost him $150 for special gear, played ,the percentages and quit dentistry...
...prose in this issue is more understandable than the poetry, but on the whole it is no more exciting. S. R. Abt has written a good description of an awkward scene between a man and his mistress. Although Abt's characterizations are good enough, he ends his story so abruptly that it is no more than a sketch...