Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when there is no precedent for it. In fact, the only precedents for a radical change in educational theory and practice that Harvard College has ever seen have come when strong-willed presidents sought to institute reforms. Within the last few decades, when the Faculty's own awkward mechanisms (as in the cases of the Conant and Doty Committees) have produced coherent proposals for change, the Faculty as a whole has distorted those proposals in practice or rejected them outright. Parliamentary assemblies, particularly those given to critical skepticism and to pride in glorious tradition, do not tend to seize upon...
...came as close to authentic blues as any white singer ever has. Her life, too, contained generous portions of disorder and early sorrow. In her native Port Arthur, Texas (pop. 56,000), a staid Gulf Coast city dominated by the oil refineries that employed her father, she was an awkward child, part tomboy, part appassionata manqué. Save for a brief stint as a cherubic church soprano, she was an outcast, a rebel against conventions both adult and preadolescent. "They put me down, man, those square people in Port Arthur," she later told an interviewer. "And I wanted them...
Still Price feels compelled to make one last try at the young husband and the suicidal wife in an awkward novella called "Walking Lessons." But by that time the author seems to have been haunted long enough. The stories are ghosts, perhaps personal, certainly professional, and in the end he may have published them merely to get free...
...that Greg keeps makes up this awkward, yet stubbornly obsessing book. At first, the entries are all G.I.-the duty jargon of a young eager beaver who has few doubts that superior officers will see his log and praise him for Going by the Book even on a desert island. Then solitude begins to work its mischief by mixing up time and perspective-bleaching the freshest memories, reviving older ones to an almost unbearable intensity...
...Beirut with his notes while Flamini continued to cover the fighting between Jordanian troops and guerrilla insurgents. The two correspondents' plan called for Scott to return as soon as possible so that Flamini could leave and file his reports. Uncertain transmission facilities in Jordan made the awkward hand-carrying procedure essential...