Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Awkward Squad. Of the malcontents now awaiting trial M. Poincaré thundered: "They are a miserable awkward squad of adventurers plotting for the amputation and mutilation of France...
...family. He was the bushy-haired, undersized choirboy in the Imperial Chapel, the one with the thick spectacles. He was the feeble violinist in a small school orchestra. He was the round-shouldered fellow teaching in his father's parish school to dodge military service. He was the awkward, pasty-faced composer drifting about the city with never enough money to buy his own music paper...
...songwriter at best that Vienna should be mindful of him, Vienna who had her Beethoven there just around the corner making big symphonies and an opera? The Schubert operas with their trashy librettos were chaff compared to it. No one ever heard his symphonies, or of him, an awkward fellow, a song writer...
...TWOULD be like pointing a brutal, misunderstanding finger at a youth in his first long trousers to criticise this small book of poems from a Conrad Aikenian standard. Gently they must be handled, delicately discerned to have appreciated the sensitive, self-conscious moods, the awkward, almost blushing moments...
...other poems are an interesting group of songs and sighs; some awkward and untamed like children at their first party; some cool and keenly expressive of a poised and brave linguist. For great audacity is revealed in the fact that the book contains not only self-expression in English but reveries and sighs in Latin and German...