Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deeply involved in his music. He seemed never to analyze a piece of music in terms of the individual notes and phrases, but as an emotional experience, in its entirety. This sort of thing is dangerous in the hands of the incompetent conductor, for it can lead to an awkward, syrupy, and altogether unsatisfactory end product. But, in the hands of a genius like Barbirolli, it led to a well-integrated and understandable piece...
...were canceling coverage for hijackings-reports that Lloyd's vigorously denied. What was happening was that Lloyd's members were taking advantage of their options to raise "war risk" insurance premiums by 25% to 100% because of the increasing haz ards. Such action comes at a particularly awkward time for U.S. airlines. Pan Am, for example, lost $19.6 million in the first half of 1970, and higher "war risk" premiums might add millions of dollars to its operating costs without increasing revenues...
...Mario Salmi, vice president of the government's Superior Council of Fine Arts, promptly and publicly denounced Greco's work. "It is like inserting a modern canto into The Divine Comedy," he complained, and resigned his post. Another leading antiquarian, Giorgio Bassani, described the doors as "outrageous, awkward, pseudo modern." Among the doors' defenders was Orvieto's bishop, Monsignor Virginio Dondeo, who contended that "each century should make its contribution to the cathedral...
...have created new ones instead (radar, sonar, loran) and even corrupted spelling, producing "snick" out of SNCC and "rotsy" from ROTC. Today inappropriate acronyms are a constant hazard. When the Nixon Administration set up its new Office of Management and Budget (OMB), for example, it seemed clear that the awkward initials were invented to avoid the more logical name. Bureau of Management and Budget (BOMB). Military men seldom avoid such errors. The Army is especially prone to fatuous acronyms like BAMBI, which stands for Ballistic Missile Boost Intercept. Some civilian agencies are equally dense: ACHE (Alabama Commission on Higher Education...
...things. They operate at different but overlapping levels of awareness. Loyalty seems a more comprehensive and powerful motive force than "obligation." a word which implies formal duties and rational ranking of commitments. How do these fit into Walzer's hierarchy? A glossary or an expository chapter might have looked awkward but it would have saved confusien later. Stray aphorisms like "Solidarity is the patriotism of the Left" neglect to explain what patriotism and solidarity really are. The author should give more content to the nonrational dimensions of political theory-loyalty, patriotism. etc.-which enter his discussion...