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...These three words typify a letter littered with qualifications, a letter whose tone is for the most part defensive and at time cynical. Prefacing his conclusion, Bok adopts an almost apologetic tone--"I hope that I have not portrayed the subject of race at Harvard as a series of awkward obligations to be discharged and burdensome problems to be solved...
...scenery is awkward too: the uglier neighborhoods in Cambridge. D'arcy Marsh's camerawork shows an every-day, harsh, concrete environment inside the cramped rooms or outside in the projects. Yet Donna looks almost lyrical as she sits dejectedly outside a beer factory after fighting with a cop and slumping into the weeds, illustrating the beauty that can be found on Cambridge's starker side...
...your story on RCA [Feb. 9], you refer to "the awkward ousting of the son of the company's founder." The implication is that David Sarnoff was the founder of the Radio Corporation of America. RCA was started in 1919 by General Electric Co. GE was soon joined in this venture by Westinghouse Electric Corp. and A T& T. Owen D. Young, an officer of GE, was named the first chairman of the board of RCA, and E.J. Nally was the first president...
...under a dictatorship, but no longer quite in a republic," he warned somberly in his kickoff speech before 20,000 faithful at Paris' Porte de Versailles. "We live in a form of disguised monarchy that may no longer be constitutional." But the Socialist leader studiously evades the most awkward question: With whom would he govern, now that the Socialist-Communist Alliance of the '70s is dead? Disingenuously, Mitterrand answers that if elected, he would call for new parliamentary elections and then form a coalition based on whatever majority emerges. He is deliberately vague because he must strike...
...absent from conversation at home, except when something about Anita Bryant came on the news. We all regarded Anita as somewhat off the wall, but not out of any deeply felt views on homosexuality. At school, the words "gay" and "fag" were used only as insults to students so awkward or unpopular that the term "wimp" would not do. Homosexuality was spotlighted only once: when the women's studies class invited a lesbian to speak and half the parents called up to complain...