Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sandburg, the head of the family was Abraham Lincoln, who embodied the qualities that the poet so greatly admired, and in some measure possessed: honesty, wit, an unpretentious and even awkward eloquence. For 15 years, Sandburg labored on his monumental six-volume biography of Lincoln. He won a Pulitzer prize for the Lincoln books in 1940, another for his Collected Poems...
...they are the owners of fakes. If they do make the discovery, there is nothing much they can do about it: since acquiring dollars is illegal except through government channels at artificial exchange rates, the man who admits to having a forgery would have to answer a lot of awkward questions...
Essence & Integrity. The better the defense, the crueler the dilemma for Buddhists and the more awkward the questions that arise. Can Buddhism accommodate itself to nationalism and the modern desires for material advancement, which are seemingly the very opposite of Buddhist doctrine? The author's answer: "If Buddhism does not adapt, it will become a cultural fossil. If it adapts too much, it becomes adulterated and loses its essence and integrity." It is the search for the middle way between these two alternatives, suggests Schecter, that causes the painful grimace so often discernible today on the new face...
Celestial Robes. Lowell came early to his vocation. He was a fifth-form schoolboy at St. Marks, the prestigious Episcopal prep school in Southborough, Mass., when he received his calling. Awkward, myopic, shy, dull in class except in history, he shambled about the sham Tudor buildings. His friends called him "Cal," after Caligula, because he was so uncouth; he liked that, and today is still known as Cal. His nature became clear to classmates after he started reading commentaries on the Iliad and Dante's Inferno. As his roommate, Artist Frank Parker, recalls: "The point was that you could...
...straight-forwardly from stand or hand-held score. The production never decided what it was going to be. As a result the audience never knew if it was supposed to be caught up in the drama of the thing or appreciating the work for its pure musical value. The awkward silence preceeding the applause after each number was a telling sign of the audience's confusion...