Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University went lanky Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S. The devout Anglo-Catholic peer found one of the war's fundamental causes in "the continuous erosion" of Christianity in the past century. He noted that every attempt to eradicate Christianity has eventually placed the destroyers in the awkward position of cooking up a substitute. The French invented the Goddess of Reason, the Russians substituted "the abstraction of social collectivity," and - Hitler himself selected the formula of the Nazi faith -"the saving doctrine of the nothingness and insignificance of the individual human being...
...They have thrived on religious rebellion from Knox's day down. While last century's revolt did not cause men to murder one another, as happened on earlier occasions, ministers who refused to help in the fight for a free and democratic kirk found themselves sometimes in awkward spots, including being hung by the heels under parish bridges...
...meaty, part of Pusey, an omnipresent butler who is equal to everything but the attribute of paternal self-sacrifice imposed on him in the last scene. Joel Asheley's characterization of an actor in the red and a painter in the pink is over-boyish and too awkward. Vicki Cummings, as "Penny" not only wears exciting clothes well (her first appearance in a shimmering strapless almost brought down the first balcony) but carries off her gay grass-widow's role with a deft touch of cosmopolitan hauteur. Ellanora Reeves is attractively convincing, and shares honors with Miss Cummings for excellent...
...sanctum of some Editorialissimo (see left and take your pick), that thereupon all vice presidents, managing and senior editors and other executives snap into line, and that teams of writers and researchers then proceed-with a precision that would make the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes look like an awkward squad-to produce that exact story down to the last semicolon. In short, put idea in slot, pull lever and zing-next thing you know a million copies are all over every place...
...sized sorrows. Rich in accurate observation, and at moments funny, it is lean on drama and lacking in depth. No British Chekhov or even Odets, Coward has the wish to be a serious dramatist without the wherewithal. A born sophisticate, he is at ease on figure skates, but slightly awkward in the average man's shoes...