Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Benito Cerino--Directors David Wheeler and Frank Cassidy have constructed Robert Lowell's penetration of an American mind into a simple tragedy of racism. An awkward flat production. At the THEATRE COMPANY OF BOSTON 136 Mass. Ave. (426-6609). Ends Sunday...
...reliance upon unions puts Mrs. Mitchell in an awkward position; for, undeniably, labor will supply a great majority of the Wallace vote in this election. The awkwardness can become schizophrenic. In New York, for example, Albert Shanker has led his powerful teachers' union in a six-week-old strike that is pitting the union directly against the black community of Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn...
...dilemma of the nonvoters is suggested by Eugene McCarthy's awkward behavior these days. After the Democratic convention, he declared in Biblical tones: "We will proceed as a Government in exile, and as a people in exile." The result has certainly been confusing. In New York, McCarthy joined a successful lawsuit to have his name removed from the ballot, thus preserving Humphrey's slim chance to win the state's 43 electoral votes. Yet, in campaigning for antiwar congression?! candidates in California, McCarthy has done nothing to discourage a massive write-in vote for himself. In California...
...Benito Cerino--Directors David Wheeler and Frank Cassidy have constructed Robert Lowell's penetration of an American mind into a simple tragedy of racism. An awkward, flat production. At the THEATRE COMPANY OF BOSTON, 136 Mass. Ave. (426-6609). Ends Sunday...
...years. Since 1960, Boston and Ter-Ovanesyan have between them broken the record six times, but managed to increase it by a grand total of only 8½ in. Then came Beamon. He charged down the runway and powered off the board, hands and arms flapping like a giant awkward bird. His body jackknifed, his legs spread-eagled before he slammed into the pit. When the Scoreboard flashed the result, the crowd gasped with disbelief. Beamon sank to his knees, hands clasped in prayer. "I was thanking that man up there," he explained, "for letting me hit the ground right...