Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPERTORY COMPANY presides over two drawing rooms. In the Louis XIV salon of The Misanthrope, they are at ease with Molière's verse spoof of hypocrisy in higher society. But they appear awkward amidst the English modern of a fashionable London flat, where T. S. Eliot's metaphysical comedy, The Cocktail Party, takes place...
...Awkward Interim. Aside from his talent hunt, Nixon's foremost chore for the next nine weeks is making plans to revise the fiscal 1970 budget that Johnson's men are already preparing. In his last State of the Union message, the President may well ask Congress to enact a raft of domestic programs of Johnsonian scope. Nixon's inaugural speech will have to offer constructive alternatives. For that reason, the President-elect must soon devote considerable attention to specific legislation and budgetary requests...
Nixon is moving slowly and cautiously. He is fully aware that his first steps are being closely watched and that his first task is to create what an aide calls "an overlay of credibility and sureness of purpose." The period between Election Day and Inauguration can be an awkward one; yet so far, Nixon seems to be using it with skill...
Graceful as they are in the air, today's jetliners have become increasingly awkward on the ground. Taxiing under their own power, they use inordinate amounts of fuel; maneuvering them in maintenance areas and hangars is tough and timeconsuming. And such troubles will only grow worse with the introduction of the 490-passenger Boeing 747 and the supersonic transport. One way to solve the problem, say engineers of Seattle's Aero-Go Inc., is to keep the planes aloft even when they are on the ground. They have done just that by developing a device that can literally...
Eugene O'Neill will probably be remembered as one of the most flawed major playwrights in history. Aiming for greatness, he often achieved only length. When he tries to make his characters Greek-tragic, they appear just plain accident-prone. The notoriously awkward prose of The Iceman Cometh inspired Mary McCarthy to remark: "You cannot write a Platonic dialogue in the style of Casey...